Definitions for phloems

phloems phlo·em

Spelling: [floh-em]
IPA: /ˈfloʊ ɛm/

Phloems is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in phloems (ehlmops).

Definitions for phloems

noun

  1. the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food-conducting tissue of a plant.

Origin of phloems

German (1858), irregular Greek phló(os) bark (variant of phloiós) + -ēma deverbal noun ending

Examples for phloems

This shows a number of white bars (xylem) surrounded by a more delicate tissue (phloem).

These concentric rings of secondary xylem and phloem (fig. 9) afford a characteristic cycadean feature.

The phloem, when strongly magnified, is seen to be made up of cells arranged in nearly regular radiating rows.

Just inside of the bundle sheath there is a row of similar fibres marking the outer limit of the phloem (ph.).

In some cases he seems to refer to the phloem and cambium by this name, and in other cases to the perimedullary zone.

The browning in the vascular bundles appeared to be confined to the phloem tissue.

The central tissue (x) is called the woody tissue (xylem); the outer, the bast (phloem).

Word Value for phloems
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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