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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids. Also called bast.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany, the bast or liber portion of a vascular bundle, or the region of a vascular bundle or axis with secondary thickening which contains sieve-tubes. Compare xylem.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

Etymologies

  1. First attested in 1872. From German Phlöem, from Ancient Greek φλόος (phloos, "husk, bark"), from φλέω (phleō, "I abound") (Wiktionary)
  2. German, from Greek phloios, bark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • jwjarvis Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky substance, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. When their mouthpart penetrates the phloem, the sugary, high-pressure liquid is forced out of the gut's terminal opening. Sep 2, 2010

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