secondary growth


nounBotany.
  1. an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.

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How to use secondary growth in a sentence

  • Stems which undergo secondary growth in thickness soon cast off their epidermis, its rle being assumed by cork or bark.

  • I regard the vampire as usurping the place of the possessed maiden, and the two Russian variants as a secondary growth.

    The Grateful Dead | Gordon Hall Gerould
  • From the soil being saturated at some critical period of growth, particularly just when secondary growth commences in September.

  • This secondary growth of painting began to flourish at Bologna in accordance with fresh laws of taste.

    Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 | John Addington Symonds
  • This bird was seen only at Kalabakan, in dense secondary growth.

    Birds from North Borneo | Max C. Thompson

Scientific definitions for secondary growth

secondary growth

  1. Growth in vascular plants resulting from the production of layers of secondary tissue by a lateral meristem (the cork cambium or the vascular cambium). The new tissue accumulates and results in thicker branches and stems. Secondary growth occurs in gymnosperms, most eudicots, and woody magnoliids (such as the magnolia). Most monocots and herbaceous plants undergo little or no secondary growth but simply stop growing when their primary tissues mature. Compare primary growth.

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