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sieve plate — noun or sieve disk : a wall or portion of a wall between sieve tube elements containing one or more sieve areas compare compound sieve plate, sieve tube * * * sieve plate noun (botany) A perforated area by which a sieve tube connects with another … Useful english dictionary
sieve plate — Perforated wall area in a sieve tube element, through which strands connecting sieve tube protoplasts can pass … Glossary of Biotechnology
sieve plate — noun Date: 1875 a perforated wall or part of a wall at the end of one of the individual cells making up a sieve tube … New Collegiate Dictionary
sieve plate — 1. (ECHINODERMATA) see madreporite. 2. (PORIFERA) A plate like porous structure below the osculum … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
sieve plate — (Class Ostracoda): Minute, perforated plate covering pore in valve; may be associated with seta [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
sieve-plate — … Useful english dictionary
compound sieve plate — noun botany : a sieve plate having the sieve areas in groups separated by a network or bar of cell wall material … Useful english dictionary
sieve tube — noun tube formed by cells joined end to end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae • Hypernyms: ↑vascular tissue • Part Holonyms: ↑phloem, ↑bast * * * noun : a tube consisting of an end to end series of thin walled… … Useful english dictionary
sieve cell — noun : an elongated tapering cell characteristic of the phloem of gymnosperms and lower vascular plants that is basically similar in form, function, and relationships to a sieve tube element but distinguished by rather uniformly distinguished… … Useful english dictionary
sieve pit — noun : one of the fine perforations that occur in a sieve plate … Useful english dictionary
