Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The older, nonliving central wood of a tree or woody plant, usually darker and harder than the younger sapwood. Also called duramen.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The central wood in the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- n. The Tasmanian ironwood, Notelæa ligustrina, the hard, close-grained wood of which is used for turning.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
Examples
“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.”
“Libby also checked his method by determining the age of heartwood from the trunks of redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens), and of Douglas firs”
“Wood heavy, hard, strong, mostly light colored except in old heartwood, which is reddish.”
“The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white.”
“GIBSON: They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.”
“The stairs were of the same beautiful distressed heartwood pine as the upstairs floors and fastened down with fancy bronze button nails.”
“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 …”
“The heartwood tongue and groove pattern lends itself to the soft nature if the interior design.”
“When a young tree grows, it has a lot of moisture around the center of its trunk, or the 'heartwood.”
The Huffington Post: Fireside Chats With Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Hardening the Heartwood
“However, if the tree does not harden itself on the outside, the moisture will freeze the inner heartwood, and the tree will die.”
The Huffington Post: Fireside Chats With Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Hardening the Heartwood
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heartwood’.
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pervious
or impervious that clouds and is the tissue
permeable, transcalent, diathermic, pervial, transpicuous, hepatization, leachy, transparent, well water, porous, poromeric, radiolucent and 6 more...
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A Parthian Shot: Archery Words
Just what it says. Archery rocks.
bow, arrow, longbow, crossbow, barebow, recurve, compound bow, flight, arrowhead, nock, feather, yew and 197 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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courtneyah's Words
sigh, troglodyte, lithe, cambium, bark, poem, trochee, minute, ablution, hermeneutic, dogwood, mystique and 98 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Some Hearty Words
after one’s own h..., hearted, heart-shaped, heartily, hearty, heartfelt, heartwarming, heartsome, heartthrob, heartstrings, heart-stirring, heart-root and 121 more...
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knitandpurl's words
kerfuffle, perspicacious, quiescent, sestina, xaipe, palimpsest, plangently, coriander, cartwheel, cardamom, bergamot, persnickety and 44 more...
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Forestry
Forestry terms
coppice, heartwood, clearwood, forestry, stumpage, redwood, softwood, coast redwood, shelterbelt, woodlots, deodar, mycorrhiza and 7 more...
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ecology
symbiosis, primary, secondary, tertiary, pioneer, plant, disturbance, vine maple, douglas fir, western red cedar, sword fern, salmonberry and 62 more...
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heartwood
winterwood
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reesetee The older, nonliving central wood of a tree or woody plant, usually darker and harder than the younger sapwood. Also called duramen. Aug 7, 2007