Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The lighter-colored and softer part of the wood of exogenous plants, between the inner bark and the heart-wood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

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  • noun sapwood; the thin white layer between the bark and wood of a tree

Etymologies

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From Latin alburnum, from albus ("white").

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  • the sapwood (newer, softer wood between the heartwood and the bark)

    from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • Compare laburnum.

    July 19, 2009