How to Use cambium in a Sentence

cambium

noun

• If some of the cambium and outer bark is still intact and wet, quickly lift the branch level to close the wound.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2021
• This can result in a lot of damage to the cambium layer on young trees.
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Sometimes the cambium layer, which is the green tissue just under the bark, comes off with the bark.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2022
• Sometimes the cambium layer, which is the green tissue just under the bark, comes off with the bark.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
• Damage to the cambium layer, which functions to move water and nutrients from the roots to the leaf canopy.
  — oregonlive, 3 May 2020
• Yet the tree was still alive, with just one rope of cambium — the outer bark that transports water and nutrients — snaking up the trunk.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
• Just beneath the outer layer of every branch and twig is the cambium, a thin green layer.
  — oregonlive, 29 May 2022
• Twigs, grasses, leaves, bark and aquatic plants are on their menu, as is the soft inner-layer of bark, called cambium.
  — Ann Cameron Siegal, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• Every night, the wood and bark of the cambium—the cellular tissue between a tree’s bark and wood—enlarged until the sun came up.
  — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
• The fir tree’s only defense against this attack in its cambium layer is to flush the insects out with pitch.
  — Nathan Gilles, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
• Also, the team only studied the cambium for signs of aging.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
• In winter, most of the living tissue is found in the overwintering buds and in a green layer under the bark called the cambium.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• Green, moist cambium is alive; dry, brown or gray cambium is dead.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
• Till and Shaw cut into the moist and apparently healthy cambium layer of a 70-year-old fir tree lying on the ground.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2021
• The aforementioned cambium layer is green in stems or branches that are still alive.
  — Daniel Cunningham, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
• This should not be a problem in the long term for your tree unless the squirrels are able to really peel into the deeper areas of the bark and affect the cambium.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
• The team focused on the cambium, or the surface layer that grows each year, creating trees' annual rings.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
• Beetles bore tunnels into the bark, laying eggs in the living cambium.
  — Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
• Eventually the cambium layer will be severed and no more phloem (layer that carries sugars from the leaves down to the roots) will be produced, so the plant will die.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 2 Feb. 2018
• Cisar-Erlach also fries cambium, a thin tissue layer in trees, to create chips, and has baked bread with wood.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• Called the vascular cambium, these cells divide in two directions: toward the outside of the tree, yielding bark, and toward the center of the tree, yielding wood.
  — Rachel Ehrenberg, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2018
• The cambium is also responsible for producing tissues that aid in the transport of water from the tree’s roots to its shoots, Munné-Bosch writes in his paper.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• The pathogen targets the tree's cambium — the layer between the wood and bark — decimating its vascular system.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2016
• Trees that have been completely girdled all the way around, (360 degrees), will have a difficult time recovering since the voles likely chewed through the phloem and cambium.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2022
• Redwoods develop bark that can be a foot thick that has built-in fire retardant that protects and insulates their cambium, Stenger said.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Around 2015, the team of experts caring for the tree noticed that the cambium layer -- the layer in the trunk responsible for transporting water and nutrients to the top of the tree -- was starting to die back, Ray explained.
  — Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN, 22 Aug. 2020
• While this thinning wouldn’t exactly be programmed senescence,the cambium could eventually become too thin to function and kill the tree.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• As the fungus advances up the trunk, the inner bark and cambium of infected roots and lower boles develop a dark cinnamon color that ends in an abrupt interface with the creamy white of healthy inner bark.
  — oregonlive.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• To come to these conclusions, Dixon and his colleagues compared DNA from young and old ginkgos, focusing on cells from the leaves, as well as the cambium, a type of tissue that sprouts between a tree’s internal wood and external bark.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• While scientists are working on a long-term solution, woodpeckers are busy rooting out the insect’s grubs, which bury themselves beneath the trees’ bark, feeding on cambium.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2017

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024