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companion cell

One of the elongated parenchyma cells lying next to and supposedly associated physiologically with the sieve tube in many seed plants, developing with the sieve tube in the same mother cell, sometimes extending the full length of the sieve tube, and readily identified by its small size and denser protoplasm.

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