The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See Vase, and cf. Vessel.]
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(Biol.)
Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
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(Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the ph[ae]nogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
Vascular plants (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class Pteridophyta. Cf. Cellular plants, Cellular.
Vascular system (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants.
Vascular tissue (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes.
Water vascular system (Zo["o]l.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish.
WordNet
n. the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant
Usage examples of "vascular system".
The clinical part of her doctor's mind noted her friends were doing a femoral bypass, opening up the femoral artery and vein in the leg and hooking up a pump to flush her entire vascular system.
In actuality, there are very few resins within the vascular system of the plant and most of the resins have been secreted in the heads of glandular trichomes.
Bond that in, hook up to the vascular system and run liquid through it for heat transfer.
People who might find blowing up three sleeping people and almost killing two innocent children as well as virtually imploding someone's vascular system an acceptable form of protest.
A large injection of air might have worked a few hours before, causing a fatal embolism, but the breakdown of her vascular system was such that he couldn't even be sure of that.
The tissues of her vascular system were breaking down as well, and the IV leaked as much out on the bed as went into the arms and legs, all of the fluids as deadly as the most toxic poison.
Blood coagulates in the vascular system, and medical science couldn’.
With the two bodies now connected, Harry turned his attention to reconnecting the vascular system.
Much easier than trying to maintain lines of communication through muscles and organs and the vascular system.
A giraffe's head might be twenty feet up, and it needs pressure that would rupture the vascular system of any other animal.
It invades the leaf-buds and feeds through the tree's vascular system.
It does have a rudimentary vascular system to transport nutrients for renewing itself, an arrangement of contractile tissues that enable it to move, and a network of conductive fibers that transmit electrical discharges in response to applied mechanical force.
Secondary vascular system routed through what appears to be a secondary spleen suggests waste gas disposal follows complimentary pathways for storage in.
This pilot though, seemed not to care about such things, or else he had an iron vascular system.
It also exerts a soothing action on the vascular system, preventing a too rapid wasting of the tissues of the body.