noun
- vascular plants that have specialized tissues for conducting water and nutrients throughout the plant body
Usage: botanical term
Examples
- Tracheophytes include ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.
- The evolution of tracheophytes allowed plants to grow much larger than their nonvascular ancestors.
- Most land plants we see today are tracheophytes with well-developed root and shoot systems.
- Tracheophytes possess xylem and phloem tissues for transport.
- The fossil record shows tracheophytes first appeared in the Silurian period.
- Students learned to distinguish between tracheophytes and bryophytes in botany class.