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In a few yards the dark line of dog tracks led around the bole of a great pine tree that grew on the very edge of the amphitheater.
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Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Backed against its bole, and as dark as the bark itself, was a bear.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
In the 1990s, a forest ecologist created a mathematical formula for estimating a sequoia’s age based on the volume of its bole, or the trunk below the crown.
—Jared Farmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
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Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Backed against its bole, and as dark as the bark itself, was a bear.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
In the 1990s, a forest ecologist created a mathematical formula for estimating a sequoia’s age based on the volume of its bole, or the trunk below the crown.
—Jared Farmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
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“Bole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bole. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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bole
noun
: the trunk of a tree
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