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The bark of Pinus thunbergii is made up of countless shiny layers. Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. [1] It overlays the wood and consists of the inner bark and the outer ...
Prefix meaning "position away from". [1] abaxial Surface of an organ facing away from the organ's axis, e.g. the lower surface of a lateral organ such as a leaf or petal. [2] Contrast adaxial. abort To abandon development of a structure or organ. [3] abscission Natural shedding of an organ that is mature or aged, as of a ripe fruit or an old ...
The trunk consists of five main parts: The outer bark, inner bark , cambium, sapwood (live xylem), and heartwood (dead xylem). [2] From the outside of the tree working in: The first layer is the outer bark; this is the protective outermost layer of the trunk. Under this is the inner bark which is called the phloem. The phloem is how the tree ...
Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick; Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog) Arts and entertainment
Drimys winteri. Drimys winteri, also known as Winter's bark, foye [2] and canelo, is a slender species of tree in the family Winteraceae, growing up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. It is native to the Magellanic and Valdivian temperate forests of Chile and Argentina, where it is a dominant tree in the coastal evergreen forests.
A wine bottle stopper made from the thick outer bark of the cork oak tree. Cork taint A type of wine fault describing undesirable aromas and flavors in wine often attributed to mold growth on chlorine bleached corks. Coupage A custom of "enormous antiquity" of mixing a little good wine with much bad wine and calling it good.
An informant removed the outside bark of a twig with her thumbnail and noted that the remaining layer of bark when carefully shaven off served as tobacco, so-called kinnikinnick. Today kinnikinnick is a mixture of finely crushed inner bark of the red dogwood and shavings of plug tobacco.
Gyro Gearloose (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ r oʊ ˈ ɡ ɪər l uː s / JY-roh GHEER-looss) is a cartoon character created in 1952 by Carl Barks for Disney comics.An anthropomorphic chicken, he is part of the Donald Duck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and anyone who is associated with them.