Meanings
- not comparableCarried, transmitted, or originating in wood.
You must also have a separate storage area for curing newly delivered wood, so as not to introduce woodborne pests into the kitchen.
1999, Costas Katsigris, Design and Equipment for Restaurants and Foodservice : A Management View, page 2942 more examples
Unavoidable heat losses of furnace combustion are principally caused by woodborne moisture and hydrogen and any excesses of air admitted to the furnace.
1978 December 15, P. J. Ince, “Estimating effective heating value of wood or bark fuels at various moisture contents. General technial report.”, in Energy Research Abstracts, page 5455This tolerance could be due to a potential ability of woodborne fungal taxa to switch between aerobic and anaerobic metabolisms, such as is the case for Saccharomycetes, a group observed herein.
2024 June 2, Wyatt Arnold et al., A Diverse and Distinct Microbiome Inside Living Trees
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