phloem
1 synonym for phloem, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (botany) The plant tissue that carries sugars and other nutrients made in the stems and leaves to the rest of the plant.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
First recorded in 1872. It comes from German Phloëm, a word coined by the Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli in 1858 from Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, "husk, bark") plus a Greek-sounding ending -em (compare System).
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