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n. - Animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels; The primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature.

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  • Wood parenchyma in numerous, fine tangential lines.
  • Wood parenchyma in numerous fine but distinct tangential lines.
  • They have only vessels, wood fibres, and a few parenchyma cells.
  • This statement applies to the tracheids and parenchyma cells in the conifer
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