Definitions for xylems

xylems xy·lem

Spelling: [zahy-luh m, -lem]
IPA: /ˈzaɪ ləm, -lɛm/

Xylems is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in xylems (elmsxy).

Definitions for xylems

noun

  1. a compound tissue in vascular plants that helps provide support and that conducts water and nutrients upward from the roots, consisting of tracheids, vessels, parenchyma cells, and woody fibers.

Origin of xylems

1870-75; German, equivalent to Greek xýl(on) wood + -ēma (see phloem)

Examples for xylems

The larger vascular bundles consist of xylem and phloëm surrounded by a bundle sheath of a single layer of cells.

These vessels together with the numerous small thick-walled cells lying between the pitted vessels constitute the xylem.

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

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

The larger bundles are normal in every way, while in the smaller ones the xylem elements are considerably reduced.

The number of xylem groups is fairly large and the development of the xylem is from the pericycle towards the centre of the stele.

The arrangement of the xylem and the phloëm is different from that of the stem.

All round the xylem and the phloëm there are many thick-walled cells.

xylem, zī′lem, n. the woody part of vegetable tissue—opposed to the phlom, or bast part.

Just above the xylem there is a group of large and small thin-walled cells.

Word Value for xylems
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17

Words with friends

18

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