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Water-transporting tissue in plants
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xylem
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Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants , phloem being the other. The basic function of xylem is to transport water from roots to shoot and leaves, but it also transports some nutrients . The word xylem is derived from the Greek ...
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Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"woody tissue in higher plants," 1875, from German Xylem , coined from Greek xylon "wood" (see xylo- ).
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And lifting water is just one of the many jobs that the phloem, xylem, and cambium perform.