XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.german
From: snipeco.2@gmail.com

Stefan Ram  wrote:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
> >|It's a protective, like a skin, on birches, lindens, and oaks,
>
>   a protection

As distinct from a prophylactic, presumably.

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