Sentence examples for shrub trunk from inspiring English sources

The second observation of tool use in wild gorillas, recorded in the same paper, involved another adult female called "Efi" who picked up a shrub trunk and placed it on swampy ground in front of her as a bridge.

The second most abundant tissue, parenchyma, did not correlate with densityNV in our study nor in tree and shrub trunks (Martínez-Cabrera et al. 2009; Poorter et al. 2010; Fichtler and Worbes 2012) but correlated negatively with twig wood density across 17 species (Jacobsen et al. 2007 a ).

Push a slight depression into the soil around the new shrub's trunk for holding water.

Press a slight depression into the soil around the new shrub's trunk for holding water.

It is distinguishable by having the morphological characteristics of a shrub, an unremarkable trunk, and lanceolate cataphylls and is distributed in the Yunnan Province of China, Laos, Northern Thailand, and Vietnam.

Loosen the burlap from the shrub at the trunk.

But what we take for a grove of elderberry is, in fact, a single shrub with a bent main trunk, its lateral branches shooting up and creating a thicket.

Do go for the etymological dictionary for epithets that feel historical: like, membrum virile, arbor vitae (from the late 18th century, for a type of evergreen shrub), wrinkly (early 15th century) or bole (early 14th century, from Old Norse bolr meaning tree trunk).

"I doubt that the Chinese were very concerned about the beauty of Camellia oleifera," he said early in December in the arboretum, leaning companionably against a trunk of this giant shrub.

It grows at altitudes as high as 2,440 m above sea level, where its size is reduced to that of a small shrub; it often has a crooked trunk.

Another adult female used a detached trunk from a small shrub as a stabilizer during food gathering, and another used a log as a bridge.