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In botany, secondary growth is the growth that results from cell division in the cambia or lateral meristems and that causes the stems and roots to thicken, while primary growth is growth that occurs as a result of cell division at the tips of stems and roots, causing them to elongate, and gives rise to primary tissue. Secondary growth occurs in most seed plants, but monocots usually lack secondary growth. If they do have secondary growth, it differs from the typical pattern of other seed plants.
Usage examples of "secondary growth".
As his eyes challenged hers, he gave a gentle but unrelenting tug on her arm, turning her away from the secondary growth and back into the downpour.
Never mind that the golf course was overgrown, riotous with secondary growth jungle.
As his eyes challenged hers, he gave a gentle but unrelenting tug on her arm, turning her away from the secondary growth and back into the downÂ.
However, if the primary jungle was cleared by man and later abandoned, an entirely different secondary growth took over.
No other roots have been discovered, nor anything resembling connective pathways to a secondary growth.
As he reached a curtain of secondary growth, another Parahuan appeared, trailing the leader by twenty-five feet, and vanished behind him.
The thick deciduous and white pine secondary growth should have concealed their movements, but the fire had followed closely on another call from the human reconnaissance team.
He drove through the dense secondary growth that clogged the track until he was out of sight of the road.
The company could, and had, cut down most of the secondary growth trees to improve their perimeter and fire lanes, but that was about it.
Zouga showed him the dense secondary growth, and Jan Cheroot sauntered away to fetch his axe.
The only way you'd know we'd been there is the pile of secondary growth we've hacked down.
Only when the sound of battle had died completely away did Kristi allow a rest, under a grove of trees surrounded by a thick secondary growth.
The river was a couple of hundred feet wide at this juncture, roiled and muddy, and the far side of the bank was occupied by secondary growth jungle, leached to a pale green by the summer drought -- from it came the sound of a trillion exquisitely unimportant lives blended together into a seething hum, just audible above the idling wash of the water.