secondary growth

American  

noun

Botany.

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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secondary growth Scientific  

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.

2. Compare primary growth

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secondary growth

One common trigger for a secondary growth spurt is flooding, Tucker says.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 17, 2021

In secondary growth, there are several more components.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Right illustration shows a cross section of a woody stem undergoing secondary growth.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Continued monitoring of the fragments could produce some answers, but the secondary growth around the plots has undermined the viability of the experiment.

From Nature ● Apr. 17, 2013

For the monasteries, as represented by tradition, with their immense wealth and political importance as allies of the heretical kings of the East, are plainly of secondary growth.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins