Blea vs Blet - What's the difference?
blea | blet |
The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
* 1814 , Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany
To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
As a noun blea
is the part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.As a verb blet is
to undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.blea
English
Noun
(-)- Authors differ greatly in opinion concerning the formation of the blea . Linnaeus imagined it was formed by the bark. But it is certain that the whole of the bark does not give birth to the blea