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suberization

[ soo-ber-uh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

Botany.
  1. the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of suberization1

First recorded in 1880–85; suberize + -ation
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So the frightened stock throws cork cells over its cut surface between that and the graft, and the suberization goes on as a result of fear on the part of the timid stock.

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When you have taken away the fear by covering the whole area with melted paraffin and it feels safe, then suberization does not go on in this way, your stock is not frightened, you have not a scared tree at all, and it will go on kindly and gently as a Jersey heifer to do its work.

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