sieve tube

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   tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae

   Broadervascular tissue

   Part ofphloem

Questions about sieve tube

What does sieve tube mean?

sieve tube means "tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae".

Is sieve tube a common word?

sieve tube is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.