old growth

noun

First recorded in 1880–85

Every part of his work is of selected stock, as free from knots and seams and sap-wood as a piece of old-growth pine.

And if it be a folly, it is one of an old growth, and is rife among our antipodes as ourselves.

In both cases the outer skin or epidermis is shedding an old growth, to be replaced by a new one.

Every part of his work is of selected stock, as free from knots and seams and sapwood as a piece of old-growth pine.

When these limited supplies are used up, there will be very little more old-growth timber in the country for them to use.

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