English > vascular plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms. |
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| Synonym | tracheophyte |
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| Parts | duct | A continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls |
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| vascular system | The vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant |
| vascular tissue | tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants |
| Narrower | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
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| bulbous plant | plant growing from a bulb |
| cormous plant | plant growing from a corm |
| creeper | Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle / periwinkle) that grows by creeping |
| cultivar | A variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation |
| cultivated plant | plants that are grown for their produce |
| deciduous plant | A plant having foliage that is shed annually at the end of the growing season |
| desert plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant, xerophile, xerophilous plant | plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water |
| evergreen, evergreen plant | A plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year |
| geophyte | A perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms |
| halophyte | plant growing naturally in very salty soil |
| herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
| mesophyte, mesophytic plant | Land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water |
| psilophyte | Any plant of the order Psilophytales |
| psilophyton | Any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton |
| pteridophyte, nonflowering plant | plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores |
| spermatophyte, phanerogam, seed plant | plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores |
| succulent | A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs |
| tuberous plant | plant growing from a tuber |
| vine | A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
| weed | Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
| woody plant, ligneous plant | A plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
| Broader | plant, flora, plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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| Spanish | planta vascular, tracheophyte, traqueofita, traqueófita |
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| Catalan | planta vascular |
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