Vessel
noun
1.
a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
2.
an airship.
3.
a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
4.
Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.
5.
Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients.
Compare tracheid.
6.
a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial:
a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.
noun
1.
any object used as a container, esp for a liquid
2.
a passenger or freight-carrying ship, boat, etc
3.
an aircraft, esp an airship
4.
(anatomy) a tubular structure that transports such body fluids as blood and lymph
5.
(botany) a tubular element of xylem tissue consisting of a row of cells in which the connecting cell walls have broken down
6.
(rare) a person regarded as an agent or vehicle for some purpose or quality: she was the vessel of the Lord
vessel ves·sel (věs’əl)
n.
A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid such as blood or lymph.
vessel
(věs’əl)
A blood vessel.
A long, continuous column made of the lignified walls of dead vessel elements, along which water flows in the xylem of angiosperms.
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