Definitions for cambium

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cambium cam·bi·um

Spelling: [kam-bee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈkæm bi əm/

Cambium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in cambium (abcimmu).

Definitions for cambium

noun

1. a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.

Origin of cambium

1665-75; Late Latin: an exchange, barter; akin to Latin cambiāre to exchange

Examples for cambium

When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.

Of cambium, Dr. Gray's 220th article gives the following account.

Under the cambium is the wood, which forms the real body of the tree.

Coniferin, C16H22O8, occurs in the cambium of coniferous woods.

The cambium cell is shaded to distinguish it from the cells derived from it.

But girdle its trunk, exposing a ring of the cambium to the air, and the tree dies.

All around the edge of the wound was the cut edge of the cambium layer.

The cambium layer surrounds the sapwood and the bark covers all.

It is an endogenous tree, and the cambium layer does not obtain.

cambium is an old name of the physiologists for nutritive juice.