Heartwood - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: heartwoodDuramen
The heartwood of an exogenous tree...
hazelwood
A reddish brown wood and lumber from the heartwood of the sweet gum tree...
Heartwood
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 softer sapwood or alburnum...
laurel tree
A small tree Persea borbonia of the Southern U S having dark red heartwood...
Logwood
The heartwood of a tree Haeligmatoxylon Campechianum a native of South America It is a red heavy wood containing a crystalline substance called haeligmatoxylin and is used largely in dyeing An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent Also called Campeachy wood and bloodwood...
Sandalwood
The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree Santalum album and of several other trees of the same genus as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S pyrularium the Australian S latifolium etc The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood...
Sapwood
The alburnum or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely distinguished from heartwood...
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