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Boucherie process

Boucherie process proper noun: a wood preservation technique that involves attaching a bag or container of preservative solution to a standing or freshly cut tree with bark, branches, and leaves still attached, thereby injecting the liquid into the sap stream. Through transpiration of moisture from the leaves the preservative is drawn upward through the sapwood of the trunk.

Proper noun

the Boucherie process

  1. A wood preservation technique that involves attaching a bag or container of preservative solution to a standing or freshly cut tree with bark, branches, and leaves still attached, thereby injecting the liquid into the sap stream. Through transpiration of moisture from the leaves the preservative is drawn upward through the sapwood of the trunk.

Origin of Boucherie process

Developed by Dr. Boucherie of France in 1838.

Questions about Boucherie process

What does Boucherie process mean?
Boucherie process means a wood preservation technique that involves attaching a bag or container of preservative solution to a standing or freshly cut tree with bark, branches, and leaves still attached, thereby injecting the liquid into the sap stream. Through transpiration of moisture from the leaves the preservative is drawn upward through the sapwood of the trunk.
What part of speech is Boucherie process?
Boucherie process is a proper noun.

Words near Boucherie process in the dictionary

  1. Bouchards
  2. bouche
  3. bouched
  4. Boucher
  5. boucherie
  6. Boucherie process
  7. boucheries
  8. Boucherize
  9. Boucherized
  10. Boucherizes
  11. Boucherizing

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