Sentence examples for wild tree from inspiring English sources

Also, with foliage limited to the top of the tree (to facilitate tapping), the intake of carbon dioxide is less than in a wild tree.

Families are also eating beetles and wild roots, but their diet today is mostly the newest leaves of three kinds of wild tree.

At the time of European arrival the toromiro tree, endemic to the island, was the only wild tree and the Carolina wolfberry the only wild shrub, the vegetation being predominantly herbaceous.

By then, farmers in Bahia had developed the cabruca system, a way of cultivating a wild tree in a wild forest by thinning out the understory — trunks, dwarf palms, vines — planting in the cleared space, and preserving the canopy for protection: the rain forest disturbed but basically intact.

Gordon lit a lamp and produced our dinner: a soup of papaya and mangrove snails followed by some small scarlet fried fish with sago, a wild tree that is felled and gutted for its starchy interior (and fed to dismayed mid-20th-century British schoolchildren).

But even then, wild tree species do not seem to flower and set fruit regularly.

Hong Kong has banned the import of live civet cats or their meat for years, and has been testing the small population of wild, tree-dwelling civet cats in remote areas.

The Wild Trees, by Richard Preston (Random House; $25.95).

The wild trees is an adventure story told as nonfiction.

"The Wild Trees" convinces the rest of us as well.

Richard Preston's The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is such a book.