Plant tissue that conducts or contains sap, especially the tissue through which sap flows in plants.
From Greek 'kinein' (to move) + 'enchyma' (tissue infusion). The term was created to describe the functional tissue in plants responsible for transporting fluids.
This is a beautiful example of how scientific naming works—botanists literally called it 'moving tissue' because its whole job is to move sap around the plant!
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