CAM plant

British

/ kæm /

noun

any plant that undergoes a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night

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Etymology

Origin of CAM plant

C ( rassulacean ) A ( cid ) M ( etabolism ) plant

Example Sentences

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It is the second CAM plant announcement for Becancour in less than a week.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2022

Yang and his colleagues aren’t trying to make a C3 that could fix carbon like a CAM plant all the time.

From Scientific American • Jul. 13, 2015

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