tracheophyten.
/ˈtrakɪəˌfʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈtreɪkiəˌfaɪt/ Botany.
Any of a large group of plants having a vascular system of specialized water-conducting vessels, chiefly comprising the seed plants (angiosperms and gymnosperms), ferns, and clubmosses; a vascular plant.
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1935 E. W. Sinnott Botany (ed. 3) xiv. 356 The first plants to invade the land successfully were those which we call the Vascular Plants, or Tracheophytes, which are distinguished from the lower types by the possession of fibrovascular tissues—xylem and phloem.
1984 Brittonia 36 419 The ‘hydrom’ and ‘leptom’ of the mosses are homologous to the xylem and phloem of the tracheophytes.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xxiii. 549 When the mammoths had been wiped out, the tracheophyte grass became rank and was ousted by non-vascular moss.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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