cambium

How To Use cambium In A Sentence

• Mr. Hutt: The cambium is the only part of the tree that maintains growth. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912
• The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
• Leaphorn put his thumb against the exposed cambium layer and showed it to McKee. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
• There is a ring of small cambium cells around this merging into the phloem, which is composed of irregular cells, with pretty thick, but soft walls. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• Secondary manoxylic wood is produced by a bifacial vascular cambium and surrounds each vascular strand.
• For success in grafting, the vascular cambiums of the stock and the scion must be placed in contact with each other.
• The cambium is the new and growing tissue lying underneath the bark and on the outside of the growing wood. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
• In each bundle, separating the xylem and phloem, is a layer of meristem or active formative tissue, known as cambium; by the formation of a layer of cambium between the bundles Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• It possessed secondary xylem and secondary phloem, which were produced by a bifacial vascular cambium with ray and fusiform initials.
• Eucalypts positively thrive on fire, their thick bark protecting the living cambium and the epicormic buds hidden beneath it, ready to sprout again almost immediately. Wildwood