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单词 cambium
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Definition of cambium in English:

cambium

nounPlural cambiums, Plural cambia ˈkambɪəmˈkambēəm
mass nounBotany
  • A cellular plant tissue from which phloem, xylem, or cork grows by division, resulting (in woody plants) in secondary thickening.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Vessels differentiate immediately beneath the vascular cambium in the late-formed xylem.
    • The outer ring of the stem contains all the functional tissue, including xylem, cambium, phloem, supporting tissues, and epidermis.
    • The cambium produces phloem tissue to the outside and xylem tissue to the inside.
    • Vascular secondary growth results from the activity of the vascular cambium, which produces secondary phloem and secondary xylem.
    • Small blocks of tissue, including cambium and the adjacent phloem and xylem, were cut with a sharp knife and a chisel from the stem of a single specimen of K. pictus that was growing on the campus of Hokkaido University.

Derivatives

  • cambial

  • adjective
    Botany
    • This layer is usually referred to as the ‘stripes of cell wall residues’ and originates from crushed cambial cells and cambial derivatives on both sides of the cambium.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On well-aerated soils, transpiration may play a vital role in supplying oxygen to xylem and inner cambial zones during the growing season.
      • A small block containing phloem, the cambial zone and two or three annual rings was punched out with a knife and chisel.
      • The first pattern is related to the differentiation of the cambial derivatives to either xylem or phloem through periclinal segmentations.
      • As revealed by light microscopy observations, the cambial region comprised the cambium, immature phloem, and immature xylem cells.

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting one of the alimentary humours once supposed to nourish the body): from medieval Latin, 'change, exchange'.

 
 

Definition of cambium in US English:

cambium

nounˈkambēəm
Botany
  • A cellular plant tissue from which phloem, xylem, or cork grows by division, resulting (in woody plants) in secondary thickening.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cambium produces phloem tissue to the outside and xylem tissue to the inside.
    • Vascular secondary growth results from the activity of the vascular cambium, which produces secondary phloem and secondary xylem.
    • The outer ring of the stem contains all the functional tissue, including xylem, cambium, phloem, supporting tissues, and epidermis.
    • Small blocks of tissue, including cambium and the adjacent phloem and xylem, were cut with a sharp knife and a chisel from the stem of a single specimen of K. pictus that was growing on the campus of Hokkaido University.
    • Vessels differentiate immediately beneath the vascular cambium in the late-formed xylem.

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting one of the alimentary humors once supposed to nourish the body): from medieval Latin, ‘change, exchange’.

 
 
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