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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A term proposed by Sachs for the thin-walled long-celled formative tissue just within the endodermis that surrounds certain fibrovascular bundless. Called cambium-strands by Nägeli and desmogen by Russow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.

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  • noun biology A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, where certain new vessels originate.

Etymologies

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New Latin. See peri-, and cambium.

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