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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elongated, food-conducting cell in the phloem of angiosperms, lacking a nucleus and having a sieve plate at both ends.
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- noun botany A type of
sclerenchyma cell located in thephloem that is involved in the movement ofcarbohydrates .
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