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sieve

strainer, sifter, colander, screen, bolt, bolting cloth, mesh, searce, hair sieve, drum sieve, flat sieve, quarter-inch sieve, half-inch sieve, gravel sieve, flour sieve.

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The sieve-tubes, with their accompanying parenchyma or stereom, constitute the tissue called phloem.
Incomplete fusion occurs in sieve tubes.
In the evening the milk is strained through a wire sieve and transferred to barrels.
The companion cells are cut off from the same cells as those which unite to form the sieve tube.
At an early period Wallsend was famous for its coal, but the name has now a general application to coal that does not go through a sieve with meshes five-eighths of an inch in size.

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