"Woody parts" refers to the hard, dense, and often rigid components of a plant, such as branches, stems, or roots, that are made up of thickened and lignified tissues.
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«woody»
«parts»
Sentences with «woody parts»
- The long the better, but try not to get the really woody parts of the rosemary, as they will be hard to bend. (blog.consumercrafts.com)
- Rather than storing most of the extra carbon in long - lasting woody parts like trunks and branches, trees in an experimental forest in Tennessee instead make tiny roots that quickly degrade in the soil — sending the CO2 right back into the atmosphere. (sciencemag.org)
- Biofuels derived from the cellulosic, woody parts of plants are not having their greenhouse gas emissions properly accounted for, says Jerry Melillo from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. (blogs.nature.com)
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