Xylem is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 36 anagrams from letters in xylem (elmxy).
1870-75; German, equivalent to Greek xýl(on) wood + -ēma (see phloem)
These vessels together with the numerous small thick-walled cells lying between the pitted vessels constitute the xylem.
The arrangement of the xylem and the phloëm is different from that of the stem.
The number of xylem groups is fairly large and the development of the xylem is from the pericycle towards the centre of the stele.
Just above the xylem there is a group of large and small thin-walled cells.
xylem, zī′lem, n. the woody part of vegetable tissue—opposed to the phlom, or bast part.
All round the xylem and the phloëm there are many thick-walled cells.
The larger vascular bundles consist of xylem and phloëm surrounded by a bundle sheath of a single layer of cells.
The larger bundles are normal in every way, while in the smaller ones the xylem elements are considerably reduced.
The central tissue (x) is called the woody tissue (xylem); the outer, the bast (phloem).
This shows a number of white bars (xylem) surrounded by a more delicate tissue (phloem).