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An annual formation of wood in plants as they grow.
growth ring
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growth ring
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growth ring
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growth ring
"
1
Another year, another
growth
ring
in the trees, in the ear-stones of fishes.
2
Water deficit influenced occurrence of distinct
growth
ring
boundaries in roots of Q. ilex and Q. robur.
3
Outside the library, ANC placards in the party's black, green and gold promising economic
growth
ring
hollow.
4
In diffuse-porous woods the pores are scattered throughout the
growth
ring
instead of being collected in a band or row.
5
Within limits, these layers can be read about as the
growth
rings
of trees are read.
1
Pores all minute or indistinct, evenly distributed throughout
annual
ring
.
2
Its 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.
3
They warp less because the
annual
rings
cross the board more evenly.
4
You can illustrate the
annual
rings
and count the age of the tree.
5
One can tell the age of a tree by counting the number of
annual
rings
.
6
There is no definite relation between the
annual
rings
of growth and the amount of sapwood.
7
It had 52
annual
rings
and 50 or possibly 52 whorls of branches.
8
The
annual
rings
of growth are for many years quite wide, but later they become narrower and narrower.
9
Ten thousand cyclists are taking part in the
annual
Ring
of Kerry charity cycle today -among them Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
10
It was felled to procure a section for exhibition, and thus an opportunity was given to count its
annual
rings
of growth.
11
So perfect are these petrifactions that the
annual
rings
can be easily counted and even the grain of the wood is plainly visible.
12
Yellow 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.
annual
ring
annual