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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] bark.]

(Bot.)

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; – distinguished from

xylem

See also: phloem, phloëm, phlöem, Phloëm, Phlöem, and phlœm

Phloem n ‎(genitive Phloems, plural Phloeme)

Declension of Phloem