Sentence examples for outer layer of bark from inspiring English sources

Every 10 years, foresters strip off the outer layer of bark with short-handled axes.

*A semi-parasitic plant, the mistletoe seeds burrow below the outer layer of bark on the host trees.

It is a rather involved and tedious process that requires a fair amount of finesse and know how as it entails wounding the tree by shaving off the outer layer of bark to collect infected tissue.

Ash trees are inoculated against the borer by injecting insecticide between the outer layer of bark and the inner hardwood or by treating the ground at the base of the tree with insecticide.

Take care to cut only the outer layer of bark and not completely through the wood.

In times past, the rough outer layer of the bark would be stripped away with a wide knife, revealing the naturally smooth under layer, but today this process is usually done with a belt sander to save time.

The cork cambium, or phellogen, produces the protective outer layers of the bark.

Secondary growth consists of a progressive thickening and strengthening of the tissues as the outer layer of the epidermis is converted into bark and the cambium layer creates new phloem and xylem cells.

The human brain is immediately recognizable by its cortex (meaning bark in Latin), the prominent outer layer of tissue, with its characteristic pattern of ridges and furrows, which sits atop the deep structures.

This crusty black conk emerges over several years from inside the tree's cambium (the outer layer of actively-growing tree cells), pushing out and breaking through the bark.

Plantation workers scrape off the outer layer of cinnamon branches four feet long, drying them for three days until the bark curls into cinnamon sticks lighter and more crumbly than those most of us know in the United States.