cork cambium

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noun Botany.

phellogen.

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Origin of cork cambium

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby cork cambium

corixid, Corizza, cork, corkage, corkboard, cork cambium, corked, corker, corking, cork oak, Corkonian

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How to use cork cambium in a sentence

When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.
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In fact, Viagra was originally developed in County Cork, Ireland with the intention of improving blood flow to the heart.
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The floors were softened by cork tiles, the walls by Philippine mahogany paneling.
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Eyebrows Cressida: Imagine eyebrows drawn on a balloon with a blackened cork.
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The two move from Vermont, where Fred worked in corporate training, to County Cork.
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And the deep grave weltering below you, and only a ring of cork and oilskin to keep you out of that cold home.
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But no sooner was she full than the discharging tubes freed her, and she rose again and again, buoyant as a cork.
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Perrott went to Cork, where the sessions were well attended and where he executed sixty more persons.
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He married the eldest daughter of the Earl of Cork, by whom he had a son and a daughter.
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Cork and Cloyne were united in the fifteenth century, and Dominic Tirrey was appointed in 1536.
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British Dictionary definitions for cork cambium

cork cambium

noun

a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)Also called: phellogen

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Scientific definitions for cork cambium

cork cambium

A layer of cambium near the surface of the stems of woody plants that produces cork to the outside and phelloderm to the inside. It forms the middle layer of the periderm. Also called phellogen See more at cambium.