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Cambium

noun
(pl. cambia, cambiums)
1.
A formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth.
2.
The inner layer of the periosteum.





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"Cambium" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaved shoot below the graft. This can easily be explained. The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter. Some think that it is also formed by the roots and ascends from them as well as descending from the leaves. Be this ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various


Words linked to "Cambium" :   periosteum, cambial, stratum, vascular tissue


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