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sieve cells

sieve cells is the plural of sieve cell.

Meaning of sieve cell

Noun

sieve cell (plural sieve cells)

  1. One of the long, slender, conducting cells of the phloem that do not form a constituent element of a sieve tube, but which are provided with relatively unspecialized sieve areas, especially in the tapering ends of the cells that overlap those of other sieve cells. Sieve cells are typically associated with gymnosperms.

Questions about sieve cells

What is sieve cells the plural of?
Sieve cells is the plural of sieve cell.

Words near sieve cells in the dictionary

  1. sieva beans
  2. sievable
  3. sievas
  4. sieve
  5. sieve cell
  6. sieve cells
  7. sieve element
  8. sieve elements
  9. sieve number
  10. sieve numbers
  11. sieve of Eratosthenes

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