Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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～ Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)
Vasco da Gamma
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～ Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)
vascular plant
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～ green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
vascular strand
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～ a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem
vascular system
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～ the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant
vascular ray
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～ a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles