floema
Portuguese, noun/floˈẽ.mɐ/
floema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “phloem (vascular tissue of plants)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tecido vascular vegetal formado principalmente por elementos crivados e células esclerenquimatosas e…”.
What does floema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephloem (vascular tissue of plants)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tecido vascular vegetal formado principalmente por elementos crivados e células esclerenquimatosas e parenquimatosas, cuja função principal é o transporte de água, sais minerais e compostos orgânicos produzidos pela fotossíntese, além das funções de sustentação e reserva; líber, leptoma (diferencia-se em primário e secundário, e ocorre associado ao xilema, geralmente externo a ele)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of floema
- floemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce floema?
- Brazil /floˈẽ.mɐ/
- Portugal /fluˈe.mɐ/
- Portugal /ˈflwe.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to floema
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is floema in Portuguese?
floema appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).