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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 the vascular tissue in the stem forms a cylinder surrounding a central pith and possessing leaf gaps.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[siphon + stele.]

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