Bark
Cork. The outer part of the bark is protected by layers of dead cork cells impregnated with suberin. Suberin is waxy and cuts down water loss from the stem.
bark The outer layer of the stems of woody plants; composed of an outer layer of dead cells (cork) and an inner layer of phloem. PICTURE ...
bark
All tissues external to the vascular cambium in a plant growing in thickness, consisting of phloem, phelloderm, cork cambium, and cork.
Barr body ...
bark - protective covering of trees and shrubs
base temperature - The temperature below which an organism does not develop.
bark
The living tissue outside the vascular cambium in a woody stem. It is composed of phloem tissues, which occur as living inner and dead outer zones.
inner bark. In older trees, the living part of the bark, the phloem.
inoculum. Any part or stage of a pathogen, such as spores or virus particles, that can infect a host.
bark Those portions of a woody plant stem or trunk exterior to the vascular cambium.
barnacles Crustaceans that live attached to surfaces and are typically enclosed by heavy calcareous plates.
Bark from the extinct Lepidodendron, which died out after the Carboniferous, likely due to competition from newer plant life.[6] ...
The bark of a tree or plant can also perform a specific function. Corks in wine bottles are actually from the bark of a tree (cork tree). Some bark has been designed to peel away as the tree grows.
4. The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus acacia, used in tanning.
Synonym: wattle bark.
(Science: botany) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See savanna wattle, under savanna. Wattle turkey.
A number of approaches have developed, such as the development of waterproof skin (in animals), living in very moist environments (amphibians, bryophytes), and production of a waterproof surface (the cuticle in plants, cork layers and bark in woody ...
Up until the Industrial Revolution the trees had light-colored lichens growing on the bark. The white moths were not as visible when resting on the tree trunks to predators as were the darker moths in the population.
As a result light moths were favored because they were hard to see on the bark of trees whereas the dark moths were easy to see; birds ate the dark moths.
Aspirin, which originally came from the bark of willow trees, is just one example. There may be many novel cures for diseases provided by plants, waiting to be discovered.
litter -- Leaf litter, or forest litter, is the detritus of fallen leaves and bark which accumulate in forests.
macroscopic -- Objects or organisms that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye.
marine -- Refers to the ocean.
[L. cortex - outer shell, bark]. The outermost layer of an organ or the outer, less fluid cytoplasm of an egg.
In horticulture artificial propagation by insertion of a bud within the bark of another plant.
Related Terms:
Bud
Rudimentary shoot of flower; a gemma.
the growing meristematic tissue from which the secondary phloem and xylem tissues arise in roots and stems; located between wood and bark
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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I did not compute the weight of the fallen leaves of the four autumns. Finally, I dried the soil in the vessel again, and the same 200 pounds were found, less about 2 ounces. Therefore 169 pounds of wood, bark, and root had arisen from water only." ...
 See also: Plant, Organ, Cells, Animal, Tissue
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