Suberin vs Suber - What's the difference?
suberin | suber | Derived terms |
A waxy material found in the cell walls of cork and similar plants
(dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant
*{{quote-book, 1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page=39, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4AgPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39
, passage=In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber ).}}