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HEARTWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heartwood mean? 

HEARTWOOD (noun)
  The noun HEARTWOOD has 1 sense:

1. the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwoodplay

  Familiarity information: HEARTWOOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEARTWOOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

duramen; heartwood

Hypernyms ("heartwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("heartwood" is a substance of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)


 Context examples 


The essential oil extracted from the heartwood of Bulnesia sarmientoi.

(Bulnesia sarmientoi Wood Oil, NCI Thesaurus)



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