noun [mass noun] Botany
The vascular tissue in plants which conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem. Compare with phloem.
ORIGIN
late 19th century: from Greek xulon ‘wood’ + the passive suffix -ēma.
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