Sentences with phrase «bark of a tree»

When the larvae hatch, they feed on the inner bark of the trees, thus cutting off the tree's supply of water and nutrients.

Pau D'Arco is derived from the inner bark of a tree growing in the Amazonian rainforest.

SpottyWot is making a crayon rubbing from the lumpy bark of a tree when DottyWot spots something else that's lumpy and bumpy through the Sneak - a-peek.

As I watched, a petite, silky anteater scurried as it searched for insects, three Macroteiid lizards quarreled over a mango, birds belted whimsical chants in melodious song, and a Jesus Christ lizard — yes, that's it's real name — lay perfectly camouflaged among the creviced bark of a tree.

For most however, contact with the leaves or bark of the tree produces itching and blistering of the affected skin, much like the poison ivys, oaks and sumacs of North America.

It's the inner bark of this tree that is actually called «slippery elm» due to its, yes, slippery, smooth, and slimy - in - a-good-way properties.

If it is, we, and our scientists, may have blinded ourselves from seeing the forest becasue we seek to see the bark of a tree.

Since I never looked it up, I turned to one of my fave instructional learning tools, @youtube, and we learned that cinnamon is made from the barks of trees, rolled up by people in a forest (well at least the people in a forest in the video we watched).

Trace the texture of a leaf, shell, or the bark of a tree.

The brackets burst out from the bark of the tree, and these fruiting bodies can last for more than a year.

Burning embers from the bark of trees were carried aloft by shifting winds and updrafts of the fire's own convection currents for up to 20 miles, jumping across roads, clearing fire breaks, and starting new blazes on the parched ground.

My guide stops to point out a leaf - tailed gecko blending almost imperceptibly into the bark of the tree it is hugging.

According to endocrinologist Don Catlin of the University of California, Los Angeles, andro is legal because it has not been proven to act as an anabolic (in other words, muscle - building) steroid, and because it is allegedly found in the bark of some trees.

The cortex, he explained, is the outermost part of the brain that is wrapped around the older evolved structures sort of like the bark of a tree.

Not so with the bark mantises, which have brownish, mottled backs and flat bodies that allow them to lie flat against the bark of a tree and hide from predators.

Yohimbe comes from the bark of a tree... Read more

Also you can try a Brazilian tea called Pau d' Arco which comes from the bark of a tree it can be found in most health food stores.

A popular treatment in traditional Brazilian medicine, it's typically sourced from the bark of a tree native to the Amazon rainforest.

Salicylic acid is a beta hydroxy acid that's found in the bark of a tree.

Students might make a rubbing of the bark of their trees by placing a piece of paper on the tree and rubbing a crayon firmly over the paper.

Have your students look closely at the bark of trees on their way to school.

My mother and I were the only women not to wear the sivanyula, a material made from the bark of trees.

In captivity, they may enjoy chewing the bark of the tree to simulate this instinctive behavior.

Although cats can cling to the bark of trees with their claws, other surfaces are much more difficult, such as window ledges, concrete or brick surfaces.

The inner bark of this tree is not only packed with nutrients like vitamins A, B complex, C, K, calcium, magnesium and sodium, but because of its lubricating and anti-inflammatory properties, it is also a well - known soother of the digestive and respiratory systems, according to Herbs for Pets, Second Edition, by Gregory L. Tilford and Mary L. Wulff.

Sisal rope has a texture similar to the bark of trees.

Slippery Elm (Ulmus Fulva / Rubra) is the bark of a tree which is native to North America.

Sprouts, leaves, nuts, and even the bark of the tree are known to have caused illness and death in animals, including dogs.

Their hieroglyphics were carved in stone and also written on paper made from the bark of trees.

His signature technique, used in both paintings and sculptures, is to incorporate traditional brocade fabrics into their surfaces, often becoming the skins of beasts, the bark of trees, or the garments of mythological figures.

In Frost no. 4 (2001), the arm of a heavy metal rocker, clad in spike - studded leather, grips the bark of a tree in an oddly tender embrace.

He spoke of seeing whole worlds in the bark of trees, or on pavements.

Collectively the differing sized triangles create surfaces that resemble those found in the natural world, such as the bark of a tree or a geological formation, often cratered and scarred.

«But I've always been interested in seeing nature as an active force in our... read more... «Judith Belzer: Crawling along the bark of a tree»

His signature technique, used in both paintings and sculptures, is to incorporate into their surfaces traditional brocade fabrics, which often become the skins of beasts, the bark of trees or the garments of mythological figures.

Probably not the quote she was reading, I nevertheless found a Tobey quote that seems fitting: «On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.»

ln Pelle di cedro («Cedar Skin») of 2002 exhibited for the first time in the anthological exhibition of Penone's work by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2004, an imprint of the bark of a tree is impressed on the cowhides tanned using traditional methods.

Stripping the bark of a tree with a hatchet, Diana L. Six, a University of Montana insect scientist, pointed out the telltale signs of infestation by pine beetles: channels drilled by the creatures as they chewed their way through the juicy part of the tree.