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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 youngcells in a growingstem , where certain newvessels originate .
Etymologies
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New Latin. See peri-, and cambium.
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