Definition of Suberization

1. n. Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.

Definition of Suberization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suberization

subequation
subequations
subequatorial
suber
suberate
suberates
suberect
suberic
suberic acid
suberin
suberins
suberise
suberised
suberises
suberising
suberization (current term)
suberizations
suberize
suberized
suberizes
suberizing
suberone
suberones
suberose
suberous
suberoyl
suberoylanilide
subers
subesophageal
subessive

Literary usage of Suberization

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

1. Elements of Plant Anatomy by Emily Lovira Gregory (1895)
"The amount of lignin in these layers varies, the primary generally containing more than the other two. 4. suberization and ..."

2. A Naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, John I. Northrop (1910)
"If the suberization was caused by the cell walls absorbing the contents of the cell, it is but fair to suppose that they would become suberized equally, ..."

3. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"zone of cork tissue. si starch, z collapsed cells with swollen cork walls. suberization, which has affected the whole spot after the cells had begun to ..."

4. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"Lignification, suberization, and the mucilaginous modification are produced in living tissues only and are due to the vital activity of living protoplasts. ..."

5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"The cell walls of the phloem are generally discolored, in some cases markedly so, especially where abnormal suberization of cortical parenchyma has occurred ..."

6. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"... to the theory that the cuticle owes its origin to a process of suberization, ... and suberization, has contended that even as regards their manner of ..."

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