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burl
noun[ C or U ]
USuk /bɜːl/ us /bɝːl/
a growth on a tree that has a pattern when cut:
Burls are prized for their distinctive, dense pattern when sawn.
The dashboard of this luxury car is covered in a beautiful walnut burl veneer.
There have been a worrying number of cases where thieves have sawn the burls off trees in the national park.
If you have the skill, you can carve stunning bowls from burls.
The maple burl coffee table is a beautiful piece.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Trees - general words
arboreal
barky
black walnut
bosky
burr
coniferous
dendro-
dendrophile
emergent
evergreen
ironwood
old growth
palmy
sapling
shade tree
state tree
timberline
treetop
walnut
weeping
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