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# vascular

«vascular» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with the tubes that carry blood in animals (blood…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (vascular)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vascular means to do with the tubes that carry blood in animals (blood vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#m1)

2) In plants, vascular means having tubes (xylem and phloem) that carry water and food through the plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on the body and on plants, «vascular» names the transport systems: the vascular system in humans (heart, blood vessels) and vascular plants (ferns, trees, flowers) versus non-vascular plants (mosses). In hospitals, vascular surgeons operate on blood vessels. Phrases: «vascular system», «vascular plants», «vascular bundle».

### examples

- Your vascular system carries blood all round your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#x1)
- Trees are vascular plants with tubes that carry water up from the roots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#x2)
- Mosses are non-vascular, so they stay small and grow in damp places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#x3)
- We saw the vascular bundles in a celery stick dyed with red ink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#x4)
- Grandad saw a vascular surgeon about the veins in his legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#x5)
- Exercise keeps your heart and vascular system healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/#x6)

### note

Science word: VAS-kyoo-lur. From Latin «vasculum», a small vessel. Non-vascular plants (mosses, liverworts) have no such tubes. Celery in coloured water is a classic experiment to see vascular tubes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vascular» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vascular/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.