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  2. Trunk (luggage) - Wikipedia

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    Saratoga trunks were the premium trunks of many makers (or the exclusive design of many premium trunk makers) and actually can encompass nearly every other style of trunk manufactured if loosely defined, although generally they are limited to before the 1880s. The most readily recognizable feature of Saratogas are their myriad (and generally ...

  3. Trunk (botany) - Wikipedia

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    The base of a Yellow Birch trunk. In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, [1] which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species. The trunk is the most important part of the tree for timber production.

  4. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    The trunk of a tree, usually the portion below the lowest branch. Compare canopy. bostrychoid Arranged on a conical surface (like a snail shell); used to describe inflorescence s in which the bud s are arranged in an almost helical manner on the outside of a long, tapering, conical rachis. bract

  5. Trunking - Wikipedia

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    Trunking in telecommunication originated in telegraphy, and later in telephone systems where a trunk line is a communications channel between telephone exchanges. Other applications include the trunked radio systems commonly used by police agencies.

  6. Trunk - Wikipedia

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    Trunk shot, a cinematic shot from within a car trunk; Trunk show, a merchandising event; See also. Trunking (auto), riding in trunk or boot; Trunks (disambiguation)

  7. Trunk (car) - Wikipedia

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    The open trunk in the rear of a Porsche Boxster Early automobiles had provision for mounting an external trunk as on a 1931 Ford Model A, in addition to the rumble seat.. The trunk (American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle.

  8. Tree girth measurement - Wikipedia

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    In this definition it does not matter if the trunks have grown together, nor if they are genetically the same and growing from a single root mass. If the tree has more than one pith at ground level, it is a multi-trunk tree. [1] [2] [12] Separating data from single trunk and multi-trunk trees is critical to maintain a valid database of ...

  9. Boxer shorts - Wikipedia

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    Man wearing jeans over boxer shorts. In 1925, Jacob Golomb, founder of Everlast, designed elastic-waist trunks to replace the leather-belted trunks then worn by boxers.These trunks, now known as boxer trunks, immediately became famous, but were later eclipsed by the popular Jockey-style briefs beginning in the late 1930s.