How to Use xylem in a Sentence

xylem

noun

• Once in, the mistletoe squeezes its way around the host cells toward the tree’s plumbing, the xylem.
  — Rachel Ehrenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
• New xylem grow in rings at the periphery of the trunk just behind the bark, adding girth so the tree can get taller.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2017
• The strands, known as xylem, are tubes that carry water from the roots of a tree to its branches and leaves.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• The trunk is a single cylindrical shaft made up of hundreds of woody strands called xylem, which conduct water from the roots to the branches and leaves.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2017
• The stems, branches and larger roots of these plants are reinforced with wood produced from secondary xylem.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2021
• Drinking xylem would be a bit like drinking a 2-by-4 or as one of our staff more accurately opined, drinking your straw!
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2021
• Sugars are transported up into the branches of trees traveling through the xylem in the springtime, not the phloem which is their normal pathway.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2020
• If the tree is still creating foliage, then water and nutrients are being transported from the roots to the tree canopy, so the phloem and xylem are still functional.
  — oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2020
• Cane bark (phloem) and wood (xylem) damage can occur in grapevines at temperatures from minus 4 to minus 13.
  — Eric Degerman, idahostatesman, 14 Apr. 2017
• Around the edges ran thick, vertical strands containing xylem, the tubelike structures that carry water through many plants.
  — Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
• As the cladoxylopsids grew, these columns of xylem split themselves apart—most likely to supply water to the expanding plant.
  — Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
• The bacteria start in the leaf-tips and work their way into the trunks, blocking the xylem (the water-carrying arteries) and preventing the trees from absorbing water.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
• In theory, this keeps air from entering the water-carrying xylem tubes inside the flower stem.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Aug. 2017
• Maple sap flows through the tree’s water-transport system, called the xylem, inside minuscule vertical tubes about a thousandth of an inch in diameter.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• As water travels through the plants’ xylem tubes, which help keep them hydrated, air bubbles will form and explode, generating small vibrations.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 2 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024