Xy″lem (?), n. [Gr. ξύλον wood.] (Bot.) That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; — distinguished from phloëm.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.