The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφλόος“husk, bark”
- German · borrowed fromPhloëm
- English todayphloem
First attested in 1872. From German Phloëm, coined by Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli in 1858 from Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “husk, bark”) + a Greek-sounding ending -em (cf. System).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφλόος all →
phlobaphenephlorizin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.