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- noun Plural form of
softwood .
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Examples
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Many of the trees you call softwoods thrive up there.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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Many of the trees you call softwoods thrive up there.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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These are generally classed as "softwoods," and are more extensively scattered and more generally used than any other class of timber, and are simple and regular in structure.
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Though the Obama administration never explained why it went along with this plan to hike the price of a key construction material at a time when the housing market is in the doldrums, the major growers liked the idea of taxing smaller producers of high-performance specialty softwoods to pay to advertise the majors' commodity lumber, and they had the votes to push the measure through.
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Yes | No | Report from sduprey wrote 4 weeks 5 days ago hunting up in northern maine we get into some pretty thick softwoods ..
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Yes | No | Report from sduprey wrote 4 weeks 5 days ago hunting up in northern maine we get into some pretty thick softwoods ..
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The brushier the cover is, the better: dense stands of softwoods, hardwood sapling thickets, tangled alder bottoms, even tall CRP fields.
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There are thousands of these mostly mom-and-pop operations, which generally have only 20 or 30 employees compared with the big North American lumber mills that produce softwoods like spruce, pine and fir to create housing frames.
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Hardwoods tend to be denser than softwoods, so a simple heft test can provide a helpful clue.
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Hardwoods tend to be denser than softwoods, so a simple heft test can provide a helpful clue.
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