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WOOD PARENCHYMA [2 records]

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Record 1 2011-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

A complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants consisting of vessels, tracheids, or both usually together with wood fibers and parenchyma cells, functioning chiefly in conduction but also in support and storage, and typically constituting the woody element(as of a plant stem).

CONT

Xylem is the tissue which makes up most if not all of the lumber, wood, and wood products of commerce.

CONT

Most of the veins contain two distinct channels: phloem, for importing nutrients and water, and xylem, for exporting the products of photosynthesis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Ensemble des tissus conducteurs de la sève brute.

CONT

Les plantes vasculaires ou Rhizophytes sont des plantes qui possèdent un appareil conducteur, lequel permet la circulation des liquides ou sèves : - les vaisseaux de xylème (réunis en faisceaux vasculaires) assurent la circulation de l'eau puisée dans le sol (sève brute) des parties souterraines vers les parties aériennes de la plante.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
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Record 2 2002-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
CONT

Fiber : A general term of convenience for any long, narrow cell of wood or bast, other than vessel elements and parenchyma... Often qualified as wood fibers(i. e. of the xylem) and bast fibers(of the phloem), the former including both the tracheids of Gymnospermae and the libriform wood-fibers and fiber-tracheids of woody Angiospermae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
DEF

Cellule longue et étroite, autre que les éléments de vaisseau et de parenchyme, disposée parallèlement à l'axe de l'arbre.

OBS

Sont comprises dans les fibres du bois, les trachéides des conifères et des feuillus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Xilología (Estudio de la madera)
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