bole
1. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) • Hypernyms: pigment, soil, dirt 2. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber • Syn: trunk, tree trunk • Hypernyms: stalk, stem • Part Holonyms: tree • Part Meronyms: bark
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