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n. (annual ring English)
Usage examples of "annual rings".
He drew a distinction between cross-grained wood and long-grained, knocked on elm, pine, pear wood, oak, maple, beech, and soft linden wood, chatted about rare woods and the annual rings in trees.
It is like some tree of a unique species whose trunk, thickened by age, preserves in its annual rings and in its knots, branches, and curvatures, the deposits which its sap has made and the imprint of the innumerable seasons through which it has passed.
Careful investigation of trees and their annual rings confirm an appreciable increase in radioactivity since 1908.
The minimum number of annual rings per inch is six for most woods and eight for Port Orford cedar or Douglas fir.
The annual rings around his muzzle showed his age to be forty-five.
Thus a tree cut down in an industrial district may be only fifty years old according to its annual rings, but examinations by the C-14 method would date the wood ash so far back that the fifty-year-old tree would have had to have been planted in very remote times.
Each succeeding year had left its mark upon her, a patina of hardness, like the annual rings on a tree.