noun
- plural of cambium; layers of growing tissue in plants between the wood and bark that produce new cells
Usage: botanical term
Examples
- The cambiums in deciduous trees are most active during spring growth.
- Botanists study cambiums to understand how trees increase in diameter.
- Damage to the cambiums can severely affect a tree’s ability to grow.
- The cambiums produce both inward wood cells and outward bark cells.
- Different tree species have cambiums with varying thicknesses.
- Researchers examined the cambiums under microscopes to observe cell division.