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HARDWOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hardwood mean?
• HARDWOOD (noun)
The noun HARDWOOD has 1 sense:
1. the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
Familiarity information: HARDWOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("hardwood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Context examples
Lindane is used as an insecticide for hardwood logs, lumber, and crops.
(Lindane, NCI Thesaurus)
It has revealed that there are macrofibril structures with a diameter exceeding 10 nanometres in both softwood and hardwood species, and confirmed they are common across all trees studied.
(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)
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