Crossword-Solution: PHLOEM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phloem | n. | That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PHLOEM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Food-conducting plant tissue | 1 answer |
| Innermost layer of tree bark | 1 answer |
| Plant's food-conducting tissue | 1 answer |
| Xylem counterpart | 1 answer |
| plant tissue that acts as a path for the distribution of food | 1 answer |
| TREE tissue | 6 answers |
| Bast | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZCAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PHLOEM (5)
The phloem is composed of cells similar to the latter, but there may also be found, especially in the stem, other larger ones (Fig.
The cells of the wood or xylem are rather larger than those of the bast or phloem, and have thicker walls than any of the phloem cells, except the outermost ones which are thick-walled fibres like those under the epidermis.
The wood is distinguished by the presence of vessels with close, spiral or ring-shaped thickenings, while in the phloem are found sieve tubes, not unlike those in the ferns.
The outer limits of the bundles are not nearly so distinct, and it is not easy to tell when the phloem of the bundles ends and the ground tissue of the bark begins.
The phloem, when strongly magnified, is seen to be made up of cells arranged in nearly regular radiating rows.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2015).