periblem

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  1. In botany, the primary cortex, or zone of nascent cortex between the dermatogen and the plerome in a growing point. In the earliest stage of its development this leaf is a mere papilla consisting of nascent cortex (periblem) and nascent epidermis (dermatogen). Goodale, Physiological Botany, p. 155.

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  1. New Latin (Hanstein, 1868), from Greek περίβλημα, a cloak, from περιβάλλειν, throw around: see peribolos.
 

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