Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Corkmeristem, or cork-cambium; the inner layers of cork-tissue, which possess cellular activity and give rise to cork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
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- noun botany The
tissue of youngcells that produces cork cambium.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek phellos, cork; see bhel- in Indo-European roots + –gen.]
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Ancient Greek
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fbharjo commented on the word phellogen
phellogen a word to uncork by
January 16, 2007