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An elongated, water-conducting cell in xylem, one of the two kinds of tracheary elements. The cells die when mature, leaving only their lignified cell walls. They are stacked one on top of another in long columns, called vessels. Water flows unimpeded from cell to cell along these columns through perforations in the cell walls. Vessel elements are found only in angiosperms. Compare tracheid.

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How to use vessel element in a sentence

Very bass-y house, if I was in my element and playing what I like to play.
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It may now be time for RSD to address the violent element within his own organization.
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In CDC-speak, the problem is filed under the vessel sanitation program (VSP).
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It turns out that a rising tide lifts all boats, including the rather leaky vessel carrying Kansas Republicans.
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Anne Marie was in her element, jabbering away in heavily accented Liberian English, the center of attention.
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This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
At one fell swoop on the field of Jena, the famed military monarchy of the great Frederick fell in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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And now there was added to this devotion an element of indefinable anxiety which made its vigilance unceasing.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson