vascular plant

vascular plant

n. Any of numerous plants, including the seed plants and the ferns, having well-developed vascular tissues consisting of phloem to transport sucrose and other organic nutrients and xylem to transport water and minerals. Also called tracheophyte.

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vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiospermstracheophyteplant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotionvascular system - the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plantnonflowering plant, pteridophyte - plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by sporesphanerogam, seed plant, spermatophyte - plant that reproduces by means of seeds not sporesherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestshalophyte - plant growing naturally in very salty soilsucculent - a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirscultivar - a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivationcultivated plant - plants that are grown for their produceweed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plantsduct - a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end wallsvascular tissue - tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plantsevergreen, evergreen plant - a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the yeardeciduous plant - a plant having foliage that is shed annually at the end of the growing seasonvine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surfacecreeper - any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creepingligneous plant, woody plant - a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stemsgeophyte - a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or cormsdesert plant, xerophile, xerophilous plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant - plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophytemesophyte, mesophytic plant - land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyteaquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinthtuberous plant - plant growing from a tuberbulbous plant - plant growing from a bulbcormous plant - plant growing from a cormpsilophyte - any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plantpsilophyton - any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton