secondary growth

noun

, Botany.

1. an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.

secondary growth

1. Growth in vascular plants resulting from the production of layers of secondary tissue by a lateral meristem (the cork cambium or the vascular cambium ). The new tissue accumulates and results in thicker branches and stems. Secondary growth occurs in gymnosperms, most eudicots, and woody magnoliids (such as the magnolia). Most monocots and herbaceous plants undergo little or no secondary growth but simply stop growing when their primary tissues mature.
2. Compare primary growth

Example Sentences

One common trigger for a secondary growth spurt is flooding, Tucker says.

From Science Magazine

The park contains 4,400 acres of old-growth redwood forest and 11,300 acres of secondary growth.

From Los Angeles Times

Queens, who, as Bondar notes, “undergo a secondary growth spurt once they obtain a breeding position and are therefore of considerably larger size than submissives,” will kill these pups—even though they may be the queen's own grandchildren.

From Scientific American

"Drones are good for measuring secondary growth and looking at where the forest is coming back, but you fight deforestation at a socioeconomic level," says Arturo Sanchez, director of the University of Alberta's Center for Earth Observation and Sciences.

From National Geographic

The measures would force a flush of secondary growth that was denser and shorter.

From Washington Post