created sense approved 筛管/篩管 · shāiguǎn · sieve tube — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
筛管 / 篩管
shāiguǎn
sieve tube
(botany) A series of hollow living cells in the phloem of plants that transport nutrients, characterized by perforated end walls like a sieve.
筛 (literal) → 筛/篩 · shāi · sieve 管 (literal) → 管 · guǎn · tube
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition