Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
(Botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes.
1 All bast fibers are obtained near the outer surface of the plant stems.
2 Jute and hemp belong to the lower order of bast fibers.
3 The immuno-ultrastructural investigation localized cell-wall polysaccharides of bast fibers during hemp hypocotyl growth.
4 Length is a fundamental characteristic determining the properties of bast fibres.
5 Dick stuffed his bast in his pocket, and muttered things uncomplimentary to Banstead.
6 He was handsomely dressed, but he had coarse bast shoes on his feet.
7 So I said to Edd: 'Let's bast him a couple just fer luck.'
8 These people built their sheltering homes of boughs and the bast of the juniper.
9 Thou bast proved thyself a true sword of the Most High, strong and steadfast.
10 The footgear consisted of crash bands, bast slippers, rope cross-garters.
11 From what part of the plant are bast fibers obtained?
12 Quite in the background lie two mats of woven bast , each covered with a sheepskin.
13 Some are barefoot; some wear boots or bast shoes.
14 The sisters Yonov barked lime-trees and made bast shoes.
15 No spalls or fragments are thrown from the bast .
16 In the same way, Bast had learned a new fear of late.
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