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fibrovascular

[ fahy-broh-vas-kyuh-ler ]

adjective

, Botany.
  1. composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants:

    a fibrovascular bundle.



fibrovascular

/ ˌfaɪbrəʊˈvæskjʊlə /

adjective

  1. botany (of a vascular bundle) surrounded by sclerenchyma or within sclerenchymatous tissue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

fibrovascular

/ fī′brō-văskyə-lər /

  1. Having fibrous tissue and vascular tissue, as in the woody tissue of plants. The veins of leaves are made of fibrovascular tissue.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fibrovascular1

First recorded in 1835–45; fibro- + vascular
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Example Sentences

Fibrovascular bundles are scattered through the compressed cells of the mesocarp.

Foliage leaves in clusters of five, slender, 3-5 inches long, soft bluish-green, needle-shaped, 3-sided, mucronate, each with a single fibrovascular bundle, sessile.

Foliage leaves in threes, 3-5 inches long, stout, stiff, dark yellowish-green, 3-sided, sharp-pointed, with two fibrovascular bundles; sessile; sheaths when young about ½ inch long.

Leaves in twos, divergent from a short close sheath, about 1 inch in length and scarcely 1/12 inch in width, yellowish-green, numerous, stiff, curved or twisted, cross-section showing two fibrovascular bundles; outline narrowly linear; apex sharp-pointed; outer surface convex, inner concave or flat.

In it we see the nuclear sheath, varying in width from one to three cells, and inclosing a number of crescent-shaped fibrovascular bundles, with their convexities toward the center and their horns toward the nuclear sheath.

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