deadwood

Example Sentences

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He says: "We repeatedly found seedlings and adults with juvenile root structures near decaying logs, not scattered randomly in the forest. That recurring pattern inspired us to test whether deadwood fungi fuel orchid beginnings."

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

West: A century of firefighting, elimination of Indigenous burning, logging of large fire-resistant trees, and other management practices that allowed small trees, undergrowth and deadwood to choke forests.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

Through photosynthesis, carbon transforms into biomass, which eventually dies and becomes leaf litter or deadwood.

From National Geographic • Oct. 12, 2023

They will fell trees by rubbing against them, creating space and light and providing deadwood to help other plants and animals.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2022

It was nearly dusk and a March stillness had seized everything—the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson