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The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]

water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting (Zoöl.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).

To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.]

nly joins that of the stock. -- Crown, or Rind, grafting, a method of grafting which the alburnum and inner bark are separated, and between them is inserted the lower end of the scion cut slantwise. -- Saddle grafting, a mode of grafting in which a deep cleft is made in the end of the scion by two sloping cuts, and t…

layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

sely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus).

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

The alburnum, or part of the wood on any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from Heartwood.