Etymology

pericambium

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Today it means: A pericycle. Full definition →

German Pericambium
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  1. German · derived fromPericambium
  2. English todaypericambium

A borrowing of the 19th-century (1868) German Pericambium (now spelt Perikambium), equivalent to the English peri- + cambium.

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