Bombproof -A hold or anchor that is thought to offer the utmost security; for example, a top-rope anchor around a large, stable tree trunk or immovable boulder.
Sylvie's bare feet and tiny fingers grabbed the tree's rough trunk. Sharp dry branches scratched at her like cat's claws. The pine tree's sticky sap made her fingers feel stiff and clumsy as she climbed higher and higher.
The European Space Agency plans to launch Biomass, the first satellite equipped with an innovative instrument that can scan through forest canopies to measure tree trunks, branches, and stems where carbon is stored.
He rushes on and on, never missing his footing, never hesitating, threading his way with perfect skill between tree trunks, jumping over bush and briar and the smaller streams, wading the larger, swimming the largest of all.
The students who had already arrived were sitting on the earthy floor with their backs resting against tree trunks or boulders, arms wrapped around their knees or folded tightly across their chests, looking rather nervous.
Sirius thought it would be -- er -- amusing, to tell Snape all he had to do was prod the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and he'd be able to get in after me.
It's just really amazing to imagine that the power involved in biting into a bone that's big around as medium sized tree trunk and leaving your tooth imbedded in there.
The fact that we're so quick to see faces in couch cushions and tree trunks and slices of bread -- gender assignments aside -- is maybe not all that surprising.
It's hard to comprehend just how much cellulose is on this planet — it's wrapped around every single cell of every single blade of grass, tree trunk, and super bloom.
Look inside one and you'll see that they're composed of tubes inside of tubes, so that a cross-section of an osteon looks like the rings of a tree trunk.