vascular cambium

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Words nearby vascular cambium

Vasari, vasa vasorum, Vasco da Gama, vascular, vascular bundle, vascular cambium, vascular cataract, vascular compartment, vascular dementia, vascular hemophilia, vascularity

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How to use vascular cambium in a sentence

When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Back home, he became the chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital.
The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life|Michael Daly|January 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But a raft of studies now shows that saturated fat does not increase your likelihood of vascular or heart disease.
Eating More Fat Could Save Your Life|Daniela Drake|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He has English and Italian blood in his veins, and that vascular mixture works him up beautifully.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus

The larv hatch and begin their work by burrowing across the cambium at right angles to the egg galleries.
Our National Forests|Richard H. Douai Boerker
They are evidently made to get at the tender, juicy bark, or cambium layer, next to the hard wood of the tree.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs
The bud is rooted in the branch, and draws its sustenance from the milk of the pulpy cambium layer beneath the bark.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs
In some cases he seems to refer to the phloem and cambium by this name, and in other cases to the perimedullary zone.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various

Scientific definitions for vascular cambium

vascular cambium

A cylindrical layer of cambium that runs through the stem of a plant that undergoes secondary growth. The vascular cambium produces vascular tissues, new xylem on its interior side and new phloem on its exterior side. All woody plants and most eudicots have vascular cambium. See more at cambium.