heartwood

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Sapwood dries faster than heartwood, and pine more rapidly than oak or other hardwoods.

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  1. noun The older, nonliving central wood of a tree or woody plant, usually darker and harder than the younger sapwood. Also called duramen.

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  • Bark and cambium and heartwood, they were the same. —  The Dreaming Jewels
  • On the other side of the hill, on Dawson land, there is a baby heartwood: a small, cold spring, and three young rowans just above it. —  StrangeHorizons,August2002
  • The black heartwood is found on the ground in the giant valley just south of Rivendell. —  WarCry Network : Latest News
  • The second from the right is the shorter way to the heartwood. —  WarCry Network : Latest News
  • A tiny irony: As you see in the pictures, the trees were living strong, the heartwood, which goes hollow in some trees, is not rotten. —  The Moderate Voice
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