Definition of Phellogen

1. n. The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Definition of Phellogen

1. Noun. (botany) The tissue of young cells that produces cork cambium. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phellogen

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Phellogen

1. Meristematic tissue in plants, giving rise to cork (phellem) and phelloderm cells. Also termed cork cambium. (31 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phellogen

pheese
pheesed
pheeses
pheesing
pheeze
pheezed
pheezes
pheezing
phellandrene
phellandrenes
phellem
phellems
phelloderm
phellodermal
phelloderms
phellogen (current term)
phellogens
phelloid
phelloplastic
phelloplastics
phelonia
phelonion
phelonions
phen-fen
phenacaine
phenacaine hydrochloride
phenacaines
phenacemide
phenacetin
phenacetins

Literary usage of Phellogen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Vegetable Histology by Charles William Ballard (1921)
"In such a division, the outer bark includes the cork, phellogen ... The phellogen consists of one or more layers of color- ..."

2. The Topography of the Chlorophyll Apparatus in Desert Plants by William Austin Cannon (1908)
"The phellogen extends from the outer part of the ... the division walls forming the phellogen are parallel to the long diameter of the cells. ..."

3. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch (1887)
"... another tissue, the periderm.1 The latter consists of a permanent tissue, the cork, and a formative tissue, the phellogen,3 or cork-cambium. ..."

4. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch (1887)
"... another tissue, the periderm.1 The latter consists of a permanent tissue, the cork, and a formative tissue, the phellogen,9 or cork-cambium. ..."

5. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger (1887)
"... the cork, and a formative tissue, the phellogen,' or cork-cambium. The phellogen, by a tangential division of its cells, forms the FIG. 97. ..."

6. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"In the mot, as in the stem, the position of the phellogen, and the products of its activity ... The phellogen is developed but rarely (eg Solidago) from the ..."

7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"The phellogen consists of delicate plasmatic tabular cells, which divide tangentially, the outer half becoming cork, while the inner remains ..."

8. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"The phellogen consists of delicate plasmatic tabular cells, which divide tangentially, the outer half becoming cork, while the inner remains ..."

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