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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stele in which the vascular tissue is in the form of a cylinder surrounding the pith, as in the stems of most ferns and other seedless vascular plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a tubular stele. See
stele , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A type of
stele , in which thevascular tissue in thestem forms acylinder surrounding a centralpith and possessingleaf gaps .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[siphon + stele.]
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