Tracheophyte

Quick meaning: Tracheophyte is a noun meaning (botany): Any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.

Meaning

(botany): Any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.

Example Sentences

There is a clear relationship between tracheophytes and trilete spores, but not with cryptospores.

The tracheophytes (vascular land plants) have a fossil record beginning in the Wenlock (Edwards et al. 1983).

By virtue of the presence and absence of vascular tissues, the tracheophytes and the bryophytes were also considered two distinctly different levels of anatomical organization. Largely for these reasons, the bryophytes and the tracheophytes are traditionally viewed as two distinct lineages, though they trace their evolutionary history back to a common ancestor.

Word Forms

• tracheophytes

Antonyms for tracheophyte

Common opposites include bryophyte, thallus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pterophyte, anthophyte, rhizophyte, pteridophyte, terophyte, coniferophyte.

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