Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tissue produced inwardly by the cork cambium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A definite layer of green parenchymatous cells beneath the cork, formed from the inner layers of the phellogen. Phelloderm may be demonstrated in the stems of Ribes, Lonicera, Spiræa, Deutzia, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The innermost
parenchymatous tissue of theperiderm of some plants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek phellos, cork; see bhel- in Indo-European roots + –derm.]
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