hydraladj.
/ˈhʌɪdrəl/ Botany.
1. Epithet of Lindley's alliance of Endogens containing Hydrocharidaceæ and kindred orders of aquatic plants.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 775 Naiadaceæ, a natural order..belonging to Lindley's hydral alliance of Endogens, consisting of plants living in fresh or salt water.
2. Applied to the vessels and vascular cells in the woody tissue, which convey water or sap.
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1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Tracheome, stated by Potonié not to be the tracheal, but the hydral system of the bundle, he therefore names it Hydrome.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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