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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Deposition of suberin on the walls of plant cells, as in the formation of cork tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the transformation of a membrane or cell-wall into suberin or cork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.
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Examples
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Curing promotes suberization and creates a callus over damaged areas.
Chapter 7 1982
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So the frightened stock throws cork cells over its cut surface between that and the graft, and the suberization goes on as a result of fear on the part of the timid stock.
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When you have taken away the fear by covering the whole area with melted paraffin and it feels safe, then suberization does not go on in this way, your stock is not frightened, you have not a scared tree at all, and it will go on kindly and gently as a Jersey heifer to do its work.
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