The limit of each years increment of secondary wood, in those plants whose yearly activity is interrupted by a regular winter or dry season, is marked by a more or less distinct line, which is produced by the sharp contrast between the wood formed in the late summer of one year (characterized by the sparseness or small diameter of the tracheal elements, or by the preponderance of fibres, or by a combination of these characters, giving a denseness to the wood) and the loose spring wood of the next year, with its absence of fibres, or its numerous large tracheae.   anvd [Please select]

Some dogs never grow coats, merely because they have not the strength to do so, and others inherit sparseness of hair.   anvd [Please select]

Juvenal (juveniles and young) pelage in chipmunks is characterized by silkiness and sparseness, especially on the venter.   anvd [Please select]

The species is intolerant of fire, but perhaps was partly protected under original conditions by the sparseness of herbaceous vegetation on the poor soil where the groves were situated.   anvd [Please select]

Long hind legs, long ears, sparseness of hair on the ears, shortness of hair on the feet, prominent (upturned) supraorbital process of the skull and much inflated tympanic bullae are characters of this wide-spread species.   anvd [Please select]