dead wood in English
Like fingerings for the double flute after a long absence, the old skills came back with surprising speed: the uses of deadwood and tree bark, the knack of setting a rabbit snare, where to look for strawberries.
Use "dead wood" in a sentence
1. Check for dead wood by scratching the bark with your fingernail.
2. All Barbets nest in cavities that they excavate out of dead wood
3. Mites and beetles dispose of dead wood, and fungi feed on the bark.
4. The new manager wants to cut out the dead wood and streamline production.
5. They nest either in soil with or without coverings, or Arboreally in living or dead wood.
6. The poor rarely fell trees: they mainly lop off small branches, twigs, roots and dead wood.
7. The birds roost communally at night in shallow holes they excavate near each other in dead wood.
8. The management decided to economise by cutting the dead wood from the workforce, thus reducing the wages bill.
9. This natural fire cycle prevented forest fuels (living and dead wood) from accumulating and fueling intense, hot burns.
10. 2 The management decided to economize by cutting the dead wood from the workforce,thus reducing the wages bill.
11. Basidiomycetes are the most potent degraders of cellulose because many species grow on dead wood and on forest or grass litter
12. The proposal to abolish permanent contracts appears to be informed, in part, by the misconception that permanent contracts create “dead wood”.
13. The proposal to abolish permanent contracts appears to be informed, in part, by the misconception that permanent contracts create “dead wood”
14. Also, the Bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c
15. Bearding: The line of the intersection of the keel, dead-wood, stem, and stern-post of a ship with the outer surface of the frame-timbers
16. When this tank was built a lot of the dead wood was removed from the site which makes dating the age of the tree more difficult for dendrochronologists.
17. We quantified the amount of C stored in aboveground plant biomass, standing dead timber, downed dead wood, surface organic soil, and mineral soil in 11 jack pine stands that had burned between 1 and 72 years previously.
18. The Great Derangement is a bracing reminder that there is no more vital task for writers and artists than to clear the intellectual dead wood of a vulgarly Boosterish age and create space for apocalyptic thinking – which may at least delay, if not avert, the catastrophes ahead.” ―
19. Osmia caerulescens uses a variety of preexisting cavities for nesting in such as insect burrows in dead wood and drilled borings in wooden blocks; hollow stems, drilled borings in pithy stems or burrows created by other insects in the ground; insect burrows in the ground, abandoned cells in exposed nests of other Aculeates, cavities in banks