Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See cork cambium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Corkmeristem, or cork-cambium; the inner layers of cork-tissue, which possess cellular activity and give rise to cork.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
- Greek phellos, cork; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots + -gen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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fbharjo's Words
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fbharjo phellogen a word to uncork by Jan 16, 2007