Cambium

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  • noun. A lateral meristem in vascular plants, including the vascular cambium and cork cambium, that forms parallel rows of cells resulting in secondary tissues.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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. A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
  • noun. One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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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