Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lateral meristem in vascular plants, including the vascular cambium and cork cambium, that forms parallel rows of cells resulting in secondary tissues.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In civil law, exchange; the exchange of lands, money, or evidences of debt.
- noun In botany, a layer of tissue formed between the wood and the bark of exogenous plants.
- noun A name formerly given to a fancied nutritious humor which was supposed to repair the materials which the body is composed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
- noun (Med.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
layer ofcells between thexylem and thephloem that is responsible for the secondarygrowth ofroots andstems . - noun obsolete One of the
humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth
- noun the inner layer of the periosteum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The radical or innate, is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium, and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it: or acquisite, to maintain these four first primary humours, coming and proceeding from the first concoction in the liver, by which means chylus is excluded.
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The cambium is the cementing material that unites stock and scion and unless there is active cambium there will be no union.
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Mr. Hutt: The cambium is the only part of the tree that maintains growth.
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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.
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In each bundle, separating the xylem and phloem, is a layer of meristem or active formative tissue, known as cambium; by the formation of a layer of cambium between the bundles
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The cambium is the new and growing tissue lying underneath the bark and on the outside of the growing wood.
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Its seat seems to be in the soft, milky substance called the cambium layer under the bark.
The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879
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The vascular cambium, which is located between the xylem and phloem, functions to segregate the two tissues, and the source of stem cells that will eventually differentiate into one of them.
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The vascular cambium, which is located between the xylem and phloem, functions to segregate the two tissues, and the source of stem cells that will eventually differentiate into one of them.
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The vascular cambium, which is located between the xylem and phloem, functions to segregate the two tissues, and the source of stem cells that will eventually differentiate into one of them.
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