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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specialized parenchyma cell, located in the phloem of flowering plants and closely associated in development and function with a sieve-tube element.
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- noun botany A specific type of
parenchyma cell located in thephloem that assists the sieve-tubecell in its function.
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