noun Botany.
- (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
noun
- any of the sheets of conducting tissue that run radially through the vascular tissue of some higher plants
n.
- The center of the renal, cortical lobule, consisting of the ascending or descending limbs of the nephronic loop or of the collecting tubules.Ferrein’s pyramid