Anemosis

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anemosis \An`e*mo"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? wind.]
     A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are
     separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon
     the trunk; wind shake.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Anencephalic