smooth-barked

Check tree trunks for signs of "sun scalding," visible bark damage which typically affects the south and the southwest sides of smooth-barked trees, such as maples.

When the bough breaks: Don't be felled by falling trees 2011

Pearl Hand and I followed the trail to the smooth-barked trunk.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Pearl Hand and I followed the trail to the smooth-barked trunk.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

The limb of the tree on which the nest perched was round, smooth-barked, and moist; only the fact that it branched at the base of the nest made it possible for anything to remain on top of it.

Falcon Street 2010

The result was a quite different-looking wood, more like an English bluebell copse of ash: straight, smooth-barked poles growing in profusion from gnarled mushroom-tops of ancient mother wood.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Around this clearing are numerous birches that have been carved with initials, hearts, this and that -- you know how it is with those smooth-barked trees.

Found: Faerie Portal Anne Johnson 2009

Around this clearing are numerous birches that have been carved with initials, hearts, this and that -- you know how it is with those smooth-barked trees.

Archive 2009-04-01 Anne Johnson 2009

The result was a quite different-looking wood, more like an English bluebell copse of ash: straight, smooth-barked poles growing in profusion from gnarled mushroom-tops of ancient mother wood.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The tree was straight and smooth-barked and without a branch, until at seventy or eighty feet from the ground it gave out the limb which the bees had chosen for their home.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

As I was very anxious to get it, I tried to persuade two young Dyaks who were with me to cut down the tree, which was tall, perfectly straight and smooth-barked, and without a branch for fifty or sixty feet.

The Malay Archipelago 2004