Xylem is specialized vocabulary used in biology, less known in everyday conversation.

Scientific Term

Avoid using 'xylem' as a verb or in a personal context; it's a plant structure.

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Often found in academic or professional settings like textbooks and scientific studies.

Technical Contexts

 This evaporation, called transpiration, creates negative pressure in the xylem, pulling watery xylem sap up the tree. This pull is aided by a fundamental property of water called capillary action. In narrow tubes, the attraction between water molecules

How tall can a tree...

 a tree trunk is an extraordinary piece of biological engineering it's packed tight with hundreds of meters a very thin tubing called xylem