Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the trachea or tracheæ; breathing by means of tracheæ, not by pulmonary sacs, as an arachnidan.
- noun A member of the Trachearia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ.
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- adjective
tracheal ;breathing by means oftracheae - noun zoology, archaic Any of the Trachearia.
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Examples
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The tracheary tissue of the xylem is made up of small, spirally-marked vessels, and larger ones with thickened rings or with pits in the walls.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The tracheary tissue is only slightly developed, being represented by a few vessels [9] (_tr. _) at the outer angles of the bundle, and one or two smaller ones close to the air channel.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The petals do not appear until the other parts of the flower have reached some size, and the first tracheary tissue appears in the fibro-vascular bundle of the flower stalk (_D_).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The bundle (Fig. 68, _G_) shows a band of tracheary tissue in the centre surrounded by colorless cells, all about alike.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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a peculiar conducting tissue (tracheary tissue), found only in the two highest sub-kingdoms.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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