Cambium Definition

kămbē-əm
cambia, cambiums
noun
A layer of formative cells between the wood and bark in dicotyledonous plants: these cells cause the girth of the stem to increase by dividing and differentiating to form new xylem and phloem tissue, which will eventually become wood and bark.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cambium

Noun

Singular:
cambium
Plural:
cambia, cambiums

Origin of Cambium

  • Medieval Latin exchange from Late Latin cambīre, cambiāre to exchange of Celtic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Late Latin cambium, 'a change'

    From Wiktionary

Cambium Sentence Examples

  • The activity of the new cambium is often associated with the stoppage of the original one.

  • Such meristematic layers are called secondary meristems. There are two chief secondary meristems, the cambium and the phellogen.

  • Wood thus altered is known as heart-wood, or duramen, as distinguished from the young sap-wood, or alburnum, which, forming a cylinder next the cambium, remains alive and carries on the active functions of the xylem, particularly the conduction of water.

  • The in Stems. bundles of plants which form cambium are, on the contrary, called open.

  • It has been recently shown that several cambium-zones may remain in a state of activity, so that the formation of a new cambium does not necessarily FIG.

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Words Starting With

CCACAM

Words Ending With

MUMIUM

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