VASCULAR PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vascular plant mean? 

• VASCULAR PLANT (noun)
  The noun VASCULAR PLANT has 1 sense:

1. green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms

  Familiarity information: VASCULAR PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASCULAR PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

tracheophyte; vascular plant

Hypernyms ("vascular plant" is a kind of...):

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Meronyms (parts of "vascular plant"):

vascular tissue (tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants)

duct (a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls)

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vascular plant"):

creeper (any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping)

psilophyton (any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton)

psilophyte (any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant)

cormous plant (plant growing from a corm)

bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)

tuberous plant (plant growing from a tuber)

aquatic 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 hyacinth)

mesophyte; mesophytic plant (land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte)

desert plant; xerophile; xerophilous plant; xerophyte; xerophytic plant (plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte)

geophyte (a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms)

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

nonflowering plant; pteridophyte (plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores)

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

deciduous plant (a plant having foliage that is shed annually at the end of the growing season)

evergreen; evergreen plant (a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year)

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

cultivated plant (plants that are grown for their produce)

cultivar (a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation)

succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)

halophyte (plant growing naturally in very salty soil)

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte (plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores)

 Context examples 

An elongated, tapering, generally thick-walled sclerenchyma cell of vascular plants; its walls may or may not be lignified.

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