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tracheid

NOUN
  1. long tubular cell peculiar to xylem

How To Use tracheid In A Sentence

  • The lack of lignin in lateral walls shifts the function of ‘pipe walls’ to the turgid parenchyma paving the tracheid.
  • However, it should be noted that tyloses are reported in tracheids of some species of Pinus and even in such cell types as fibre-tracheids or laticifers.
  • Tissues external to the xylem were removed because of the presence of large resin ducts which could release materials that would obstruct water flow through the xylem tracheids.
  • The charcoal consists entirely of pycnoxylic coniferopsid wood characterized by 30-40 m diameter tracheids with contiguous, oval, seriate, alternate, bordered pitting on their radial walls and blank tangential walls.
  • Graniferous tracheary elements, which may be either tracheids or vessel members, have been observed most often in the haustoria of root-parasitic angiosperms.
  • Pit A gap in the secondary cell wall that enables communication between thickened cells, e. g. tracheids.
  • Vessel elements, tracheids, fibres, sieve tube elements, sieve cells, and parenchyma cells are the major components of vascular tissue.
  • Little or no plastic deformation is seen in tracheid walls in ring 26, which is the last ring formed in the tree.
  • Lignins occur in great quantity in the secondary cell walls of fibres, xylem vessels and tracheids.
  • Furthermore individual tracheids within these anomalous wood zones often possess a rounded cross-sectional shape, such that they do not perfectly tessellate, resulting in the occurrence of abundant intercellular spaces.
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