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ves⋅sel

  [ves-uhl]
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–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, esp. something nonmaterial: a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF, OF vessel, va(i)ssel < L vāscellum, equiv. to vās (see vase ) + -cellum dim. suffix

Related forms:
vesseled; especially British, vesselled, adjective
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ves·sel   (věs'əl)   
n.  
  1. A hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids.
    1. Nautical A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water.
    2. An airship.
  3. Anatomy A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid: a blood vessel.
  4. Botany One of the tubular conductive structures of xylem, consisting of dead cylindrical cells that are attached end to end and connected by perforations. They are found in nearly all flowering plants.
  5. A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality: a vessel of mercy.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of Latin vāsculum, diminutive of vās, vessel.]
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vessel   (věs'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A blood vessel.
  2. 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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