An annual formation of wood in plants as they grow.
1Pores all minute or indistinct, evenly distributed throughout annual ring.
2Its grain records its past, ring by annual ring, and though the tree stops growing when it's cut, it doesn't stop developing and changing.
3They warp less because the annual rings cross the board more evenly.
4You can illustrate the annual rings and count the age of the tree.
5One can tell the age of a tree by counting the number of annual rings.
6There is no definite relation between the annual rings of growth and the amount of sapwood.
7It had 52 annual rings and 50 or possibly 52 whorls of branches.
8The annual rings of growth are for many years quite wide, but later they become narrower and narrower.
9Ten thousand cyclists are taking part in the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle today -among them Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
10It was felled to procure a section for exhibition, and thus an opportunity was given to count its annual rings of growth.
11So perfect are these petrifactions that the annual rings can be easily counted and even the grain of the wood is plainly visible.
12Yellow pine flooring that is rift-sawn is more valuable than slash-sawn, because the edge of the annual rings makes a more even grain, Fig.
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