How to Use cambium in a Sentence

cambium

noun
  • Larvae hatched from eggs laid on an oak tree bore in to reach the cambium.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • Green, moist cambium is alive; dry, brown or gray cambium is dead.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • This can result in a lot of damage to the cambium layer on young trees.
    — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Remove the bark and scrape away the green cambium layer beneath it.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 June 2026
  • The next stop is the workshop, where Faivre dries the cambium bands for 72 hours.
    — Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The aforementioned cambium layer is green in stems or branches that are still alive.
    — Daniel Cunningham, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Just beneath the outer layer of every branch and twig is the cambium, a thin green layer.
    — oregonlive, 29 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many oak tree species have thick outer bark that protects the inner cambium layer, from which new growth occurs.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Beetles bore tunnels into the bark, laying eggs in the living cambium.
    — Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The cambium is like a tree’s blood vessels, carrying water and nutrients up and down.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • If the cambium was destroyed, the leaves won’t fully expand and eventually die from a lack of water.
    — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
  • The cambium, maker of all the trees, is preparing for its spring festivities.
    — Bluesky Social, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • This combination shrinks the outer bark while the inner cambium freezes and expands.
    — Tammie Souza, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The cambium is like a tree’s blood vessels, Durbin said, carrying water and nutrients up and down.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • 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
  • The trees don't really explode, instead the dry bark on the outside of a tree cools more rapidly than the soft, moist cambium inside the tree.
    — Tammie Souza, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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