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beech
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...distinctive smooth, silvery gray bark and pale green leaves that turn golden...through lumbering and through beech bark disease, a fungal infection that...the tree through holes bored in its bark by a scale insect. The blue, or water, beech...
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mangrove
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...absorbing the effects of storm and some tsunami waves, but many mangroves have been harvested destructively on a large scale. The bark is a rich source of tannins, and the wood is used for wharf pilings and other purposes. Some mangrove species lack...
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Hoffmann, Felix
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in extract of willow-tree bark, which had been known for centuries...of chemical dyes whose mass-scale industrial production methods...Salicylic acid is derived from the bark and leaves of the willow tree...recommended chewing the bark or leaves of the white willow...
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Beetles
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...found on vegetation, under bark, stones, and other objects...Homoptera) such as aphids and scale insects, while only a few...larvae and adult forms of bark beetles (Scolytidae) attack treetissue beneath the bark. Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae...
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Sequoia
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Redwoods have a thick, reddish, fibrous bark as much as 10 in (25 cm) deep. Redwood...and soil moisture. The giant redwood has scale like, awl-shaped foliage, very different...containing 24-40 wedge-shaped scales. The bark is fibrous and thick and can be as much...
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Ket
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...relate that the Arin were living in birch-bark tipis in the summer and felt tents in the...primarily fished, but a few were small-scale farmers with horses and oxen. Accounts...Ket were migrating with portable birch-bark tipis for hunting and fishing, wearing...
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Birch family (Betulaceae)
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...sepals, although some species have small scale-like appendages that represent reduced...heights of 65 feet (20 m), and has scaly bark that breaks off in short strips. The wood...in the making of plywood and boxes. The bark of paper birch was once used
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Tropical Diseases
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Jesuit missionaries in Peru introduced the bark of the cinchona tree to Europeans. The active substance in the bark, quinine, was isolated in 1820. Though...treatment for malaria cleared the way for large scale exploration of tropical areas by Europeans...
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Syrups
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...syrup so that a figure can be read off a scale, has been used since the early nineteenth century. Two types of scale — degrees Baum é (devised...syrup since they had only flammable birch bark or fragile clay vessels. One method they...
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replica ship
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
replica ship, a full-scale reproduction of a vessel, usually a ship from the past. Some have...voyages and is currently based in the UK. Run and funded by the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation as a sailing museum replica ship, she is used...
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