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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tube through which food is conducted in angiosperms, formed of a series of sieve-tube elements joined end to end.
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- noun tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae
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