Sentence Examples

  • Some plants root so freely that they need only pegging down; but in most cases the arrest of the returning sap to form a callus, and ultimately young roots, must be brought about artificially, either by twisting the branch, by splitting it, by girding FIG.
  • She'd buried them under the callus she'd grown around her emotions.
  • Aphidesand may be easily penetrated by certain Fungi such as Peziza, Nectria; and when thus attacked, the repeated conflicts between the cambium and callus, on the one hand, trying to heal over the wound, and the insect or Fungus, on the other, destroying the new tissues as they are formed, results in irregular growths; the still uninjured cambium area goes on thickening the branch, the dead parts, of course, remain unthickened, and the portion in which the Fungus is at work may for the time being grow more rapidly.
  • A canker is the result of repeated frustrated attempts on, the part of the callus to heal up a wound.
  • She'd built up a callus around her heart, one that got stronger and easier to maintain as she manipulated evil men.
 
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