liber

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the living inner bark of a plant, especially the tissue that conducts food; phloem

   Removing a complete ring of liber can interrupt the tree's transport of sugars.

2. 2
   noun

   a book or volume of public records

   The deed was copied into the county's oldest liber of conveyances.

Directly from Latin liber, which could mean both the inner bark of a tree and a book. Writing material made from bark helped connect the senses historically; botanical English retained the bark sense, while some legal systems use liber for a bound volume of records.

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