tree trunk
Noun
Meaning
tree trunk (plural tree trunks)
The main structural member of a tree.
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Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves.
With a twitching nose A dog reads a telegram On a wet tree trunk.
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk -- time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.
Acosta leaned against a tall tree trunk while Myers faced her backside toward the camera, giving her audience a view of her famous posterior.