Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having fibrous tissue and vascular tissue, as in the woody tissue of plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, consisting of woody fibers and ducts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to
cellular .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having both
fibrous andvascular tissue
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Examples
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The fibrovascular bundles also contain soft-walled prosenchyma cells.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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Sometimes these crystals are coarser and less needle-like, as in Fig.K. Fig. C shows a transverse section through the leaf-bearing portion of the rhizome (at a), and is rather irregular on account of the fibrovascular bundles diverging into the base of the leaves of flower-stalks.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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These fibrovascular bundles consist mainly of dotted or reticulated ducts (Fig. F), but all gradations from, this to the spiroids, or even true spiral ducts (Fig. E). may be found, though the annular and spiral ducts are quite rare.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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There are also from two to four or five free closed fibrovascular bundles in the central pith.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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The larger follicles (Fig. 1164) consist of an external fibrovascular coat, connected with the surrounding stroma of the ovary by a net-work of bloodvessels; and an internal coat, which consists of several layers of nucleated cells, called the membrana granulosa.
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If the fibrovascular rope is the mechanical impediment which hinders the normal growth, we may try the effect of cutting through this rope.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Woody layers of strongly developed fibrovascular strands were seen to be separated one from another only by very thin layers of parenchymatous cells.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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If the fibrovascular connection of the leaf-bases were lost at the same time the stems would grow and become straight and tall.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The fibrovascular strands constitute a strong rope, which is twisted around the stem along the line on which the leaves are inserted.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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