Crossword clues for cambium
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cambium \Cam"bi*um\, n. [LL. cambium exchange, fr. L. cambire to exchange. It was supposed that cambium was sap changing into wood.]
(Bot.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
(Med.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s in botany sense, from Late Latin cambium "exchange," from Latin cambiare "change" (see change (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems. 2 (context obsolete English) One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
WordNet
n. formative one-cell-thick layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth
the inner layer of the periosteum
[also: cambia (pl)]
Wikipedia
A cambium (plural cambia or cambiums), in botany, is a tissue layer that provides partially undifferentiated cells for plant growth. It forms parallel rows of cells, which result in secondary tissues.
There are several distinct kinds of cambium found in plant stems and roots:
Usage examples of "cambium".
With her hand-axe, she chopped away a section of the tough outer bark, then scraped off the inner cambium layer with a knife.
Quickly, she stuffed the sling into a fold of her wrap, raced to the cherry trees, cut away the outer bark with her flint knife, and scraped off long thin pieces of the inner cambium layer.
Perhaps in a while--a month or two--a certain shoot in the topmost branch would take the hint and the uneven flow of moisture up through the cambium layer would nudge it away from that upward reach and persuade it to continue the horizontal passage.
While she waited for them to plump up and absorb more of the water, she stripped away the outer bark of a birch tree, scraped off some of the soft, sweet, edible cambium layer underneath, and added it to her root-starch-and-berry mixture.
Then she took small handfuls of the doughy root starch, mixed with the berries, the sweet, flavorful licorice-fern root stalk, and the sweetening and thickening sap from the birch cambium, and dropped them on the hot rocks.
She started their herb tea steeping, adding some birch cambium for the wintergreen flavor, then took the pine cones out of the edge of the fire.
And lifting water is just one of the many jobs that the phloem, xylem, and cambium perform.
It enters a chestnut effortlessly, devours the cambium cells, and positions itself for attack on the next tree before the tree has the faintest idea, chemically speaking, what hit it.
The girths were similar enough that he was able to use the simple slant of each cut to place them together so the cambiums on each side met truly.
With her hand-axe, she chopped away a section of the tough outer bark, then scraped off the inner cambium layer with a knife.
Quickly, she stuffed the sling into a fold of her wrap, raced to the cherry trees, cut away the outer bark with her flint knife, and scraped off long thin pieces of the inner cambium layer.