vascular strand

1. 1.

   a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem

   Synonymsvascular bundlefibrovascular bundle

   Broadervascular tissue

   Narrowervein

Questions about vascular strand

What does vascular strand mean?

vascular strand means "a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem".

What is another word for vascular strand?

Close synonyms include vascular bundle, fibrovascular bundle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vascular strand a common word?

vascular strand 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.