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- noun Plural form of
basswood .
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Widespread dominants include American beech, tuliptree (also called yellow-poplar), several basswoods, sugar maple, sweet buckeye, red oak, white oak, and eastern hemlock, in addition to 20-25 other species.
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The lowland deciduous forests of the island form an ecoregion consisting of oaks, basswoods, ash, and conifers with a dwarf bamboo understory.
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Each sprout becomes a trunk, forming the “fairy rings” of mature basswoods you sometimes see in the woods.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Each sprout becomes a trunk, forming the “fairy rings” of mature basswoods you sometimes see in the woods.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Each sprout becomes a trunk, forming the “fairy rings” of mature basswoods you sometimes see in the woods.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Miller (1955a: 165) remarked that it was found in canyon bottoms, "whether at 7500 feet among the rocky slopes, oaks, and white pines ... or at 5000 feet in the madrone, maples, elms, and basswoods ...."
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
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Elms, maples, basswoods, and the like are nearly always reliable.
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In any case, basswoods, old oaks and chestnuts are apt to be hollow; while hickories and elms are seldom so, for once they yield to decay at all, they go down.
Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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He came back to the clump of basswoods near which Randolph was sitting on a short length of drift wood, with his back to the sun, and sat down beside him.
Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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Randolph reached for his trousers, as they hung on a lower branch of one of the basswoods.
Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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