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Pericycle

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Word	Definition
pericambiumnoun	(biology, dated) A pericycle.
endodermisnoun	(botany) In a plant stem or root, a cylinder of cells that separates the outer cortex from the central core. The endodermis controls flow of water and minerals within the plant. In most plants, this tissue is restricted to the roots.
peridermnoun	(botany) The outer layer of plant tissue comprising the phellem, phellogen and the phelloderm.
epiphloeumnoun	(botany) A corky envelope or outer portion of bark, lying next beneath an epidermis.
endoderminnoun	Misspelling of endodermis. [(botany) In a plant stem or root, a cylinder of cells that separates the outer cortex from the central core. The endodermis controls flow of water and minerals within the plant. In most plants, this tissue is restricted to the roots.]
phellodermnoun	(botany) The innermost parenchymatous tissue of the periderm of some plants
endophloeumnoun	(botany, archaic) The inner layer of tree bark.
endospherenoun	(biology) All the endophytes of a plant
epiphloemnoun	Alternative form of epiphloeum. [(botany) A corky envelope or outer portion of bark, lying next beneath an epidermis.]
perispermnoun	(biology) The layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms.
perichaethnoun	(botany) The leafy involucre surrounding the archegonium (fruit stalk) of mosses
pericarpnoun	(botany) The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.
pithnoun	(figurative) The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
perichaetiumnoun	(botany) perichaeth
phellemnoun	(botany) cork (dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants)
peridiolenoun	(mycology) A lens-shaped capsule of spores that grows in cups of some kinds of fungi.
phelodermnoun	Misspelling of phelloderm. [(botany) The innermost parenchymatous tissue of the periderm of some plants]
epiphlœumnoun	Obsolete form of epiphloeum. [(botany) A corky envelope or outer portion of bark, lying next beneath an epidermis.]
endocarpnoun	(botany) The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed: the tissue (uncountable) or the structure that it composes (countable).
procambiumnoun	(botany) A meristem that lies just inside the protoderm and develops into primary xylem and primary phloem