(n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
Example Sentences:
(1) In initial experiments we used a routine agglutination technique with A1LEb and BLea erythrocytes to screen for reactivity with most of the possible antigens.
(2) Though the route is relatively easy it can be very boggy beyond Blea Tarn, so wear appropriate footwear.
(3) Heading east from the hotel past a campsite you pass the woodland-fringed Blea Tarn, which has a magnificent view from the far end across the tarn towards the Langdales.
(4) On thin frozen sections, biotinylated Lycopersicon esculentum (bLEA)-streptavidin-gold conjugates were confined primarily to the luminal plasmalemma of type I cells.