The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The females make huge webs, sometimes large enough to hang between trees on either side of a rural road.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

They include what is said to be the largest growth of mangrove trees in the western half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Research has shown that just three rows of trees near poultry houses can reduce the release of dust and ammonia.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Scientists recently studied the effects of mechanical thinning on two kinds of pecan trees in the southeastern United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Researchers say villages where farmers planted trees did better than others during a drought and food shortage in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

After liquid sap is taken from sugar maple trees, it goes to a sugarhouse where the sap is boiled.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

She felt her heart tremble every time he shot an unsuspecting bird as it was singing in the trees.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Some of them are paths made in the early nineteen hundreds by men who climbed the mountain to cut trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The oak wood for the oven comes from an organic farm in Pennsylvania that collects old wood from fallen trees.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Orchid plants are blooming out of pots, climbing on trees or overflowing from baskets among the garden's permanent collection.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

After about five years, cacao trees start producing large fruits called pods, which grow near the trunk of the tree.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

But protecting plants and trees in the garden may not be too difficult if you follow a few suggestions.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

They walk along the Frijoles stream lined with green trees that once was the only water supply for the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05