Catchword: cat face

Filed Under: English

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Atzet stopped again, to drill into the bulging bark of a cat-faced sugar pine. The cat face is a ring of bulging bark that has grown to heal a scar left by a fire. Because the healing bark is loaded with pitch, it tends to burn more intensely each time fire sweeps past, and the cat face grows.

Article or Document Title:
“Some Species Need Forest Fires to Survive Plants Sprouting in Charred Oregon Woodland”

Author:
Jeff Barnard

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Los Angeles Times

Date of Publication:
May 15, 1988

Page Number:
4

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