phello-, phell-

(Greek: cork, bark; cork tree; inner bark of trees)


phellem
1. The outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
2. A cork oak; the tree itself.
3. Something made of cork.
4. A piece of cork, rubber, or the like used as a stopper, as for a bottle.
5. Fish angling: a small float to buoy up a fishing line or to indicate that a fish is biting.
6. An outer tissue of bark produced by and exterior to the phellogen.
7. To provide or to fit with cork or a cork.
8. To blacken with burnt cork.
9. Idiom: to blow or pop one's cork = to lose one's temper; to release one's emotional or physical tension.
Phellodendron
Cork tree.
phelloderm
A layer of tissue developed on the inner side of the cork.
phellodermal
A description of a tissue produced inwardly by the cork cambium (a zone of actively dividing tissue near the outer surface of a woody plant that produces cork).
phellogen
1. Literally, "cork producer".
2. The meristematic tissue out of which cork is developed.
3. The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
phellogenetic, phellogenic
A reference to phellogen or a description of the cork cambium of woody stems, arising as a secondary meristem (plant tissue producing new cells) and giving rise to cork and phelloderm.
phelloid
Cork-like or similar to cork.
phelloplastic
1. A model made of cork.
2. The art of modeling in cork.

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