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单词 cambium
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cambiumn.

Brit. /ˈkambɪəm/, U.S. /ˈkæmbiəm/
Etymology: < late Latin cambium exchange (found in the Laws of the Lombards); the physiological sense, 2, occurs in 14th cent. in Arnold de Villa Nova (‘cambium humiditas manifeste alterata membri continentis complexione’).
1.
a. Exchange, barter.
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1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Cambium, the exchanging or bartering of Commodities.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
b. A place of exchange, an exchange. Obsolete.
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1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Cambium, an Exchange, or Place where Merchants meet.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
2. One of the ‘alimentary humours’ formerly supposed to nourish the bodily organs. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > humours > specific humours
phlegmc1250
moisturea1387
melancholyc1390
cholera1393
black humoura1398
choleraa1398
melancholiaa1398
coldness1398
sanguineness1530
atrabile1594
combust choler1607
primary humour1621
black bile1634
cambium1634
yellow bile1634
kapha1937
pitta1937
dosha1959
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. vi. 13 The Arabians have mentioned foure other humors, which they terme Alimentary... The third [humor] they call by a Barbarous name Cambium which already put to the part to be nourished, is there fastened.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Cambium, one of the three Humours sometime thought to nourish the Body, the other two being call'd Gluten and Ros.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
3.
a. Botany. A viscid substance, consisting of cellular tissue, lying immediately under the bark of exogens, in which the annual growth of the wood and bark takes place. ‘The cells are inactive during winter, but very succulent in spring. This name was formerly given to the fluid contents only of the cells.’ New Sydenham Soc. LexiconQuot. 1672 illustrates the origin of this sense from 2.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > cambium or periderm
cambium1672
peridermis1839
periderm1849
mother1862
phelloderm1875
phellogen1875
suber1913
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 53 The said Sap..becomes (as they speak of that of an Animal) the Vegetative Ros or Cambium: the noblest part whereof is at last..assimilated to the like substance with the said Lignous Body.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iii. 129 The Cambium, which is the mucilaginous fluid found in trees between the wood and the bark.
1877 W. H. Dall Tribes Extreme Northwest 86 A species of red..derived from pine bark or the cambium of the ground-willow.
b. attributive, as in cambium-layer, cambium-ring.
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1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. iii. 78 There is always a zone of delicate young cells interposed between the wood and the bark. This is called the Cambium, or, better, the Cambium-Layer.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 654 The primary bundles..are united by a cambium-ring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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