noun
- a vascular plant having specialized tissues for conducting water and nutrients
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Ferns are tracheophytes that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
- All flowering plants are tracheophytes with well-developed vascular systems.
- The evolution of tracheophytes allowed plants to grow much larger than their non-vascular ancestors.
- Tracheophytes include trees, shrubs, ferns, and most familiar land plants.
- The vascular tissue in tracheophytes consists of xylem and phloem.
- Mosses are not tracheophytes because they lack specialized conducting tissues.