vascular : Idioms & Phrases

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vascular bundle

  • noun a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem
    fibrovascular bundle; vascular bundle.
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vascular hemophilia

  • noun a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding
    von Willebrand's disease; angiohemophilia.
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vascular plant

  • noun green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
    tracheophyte; vascular plant.
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Vascular plants

  • noun green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
    tracheophyte; vascular plant.
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  • (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class Pteridophyta. Cf. Cellular plants, Cellular.
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vascular ray

  • noun a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles
    medullary ray.
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vascular spider

  • noun a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate
    spider nevus; spider angioma.
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vascular strand

  • noun a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem
    fibrovascular bundle; vascular bundle.
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vascular structure

  • noun a structure composed of or provided with blood vessels
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Vascular system

  • noun the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant
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  • (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants.
Webster 1913

Vascular tissue

  • noun tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants
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  • (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes.
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Water vascular system

  • noun system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration
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  • (Zoöl.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish.
Webster 1913