Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The older, nonliving central wood of a tree or shrub, usually darker and harder than the younger sapwood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Tasmanian ironwood, Notelæa ligustrina, the hard, close-grained wood of which is used for turning.
- noun The central wood in the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as
duramen , and distinguished from the softersapwood oralburnum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wood nearer the heart of astem orbranch , different in color from thesapwood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
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Examples
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Fortunately, he accepted me as his Ph.D. student and I began to explore the neoflavonoids found in a piece of heartwood from a Brazilian tree.
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Libby also checked his method by determining the age of heartwood from the trunks of redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens), and of Douglas firs
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The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white.
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Wood heavy, hard, strong, mostly light colored except in old heartwood, which is reddish.
Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison
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GIBSON: They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.
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GIBSON: They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.
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The stairs were of the same beautiful distressed heartwood pine as the upstairs floors and fastened down with fancy bronze button nails.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For the left side of the ‘volume’ mature wood was selected and for the right side sapwood, while the fore-edge was made from heartwood; the top surface incorporated cross-sections from branches of various ages while the bottom surface showed a section through the trunk …
A 2009
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The heartwood tongue and groove pattern lends itself to the soft nature if the interior design.
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The stairs were of the same beautiful distressed heartwood pine as the upstairs floors and fastened down with fancy bronze button nails.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
reesetee commented on the word heartwood
The older, nonliving central wood of a tree or woody plant, usually darker and harder than the younger sapwood. Also called duramen.
August 7, 2007