heartwood - or duramen

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heartwood: Definition and Much More From Answers.com
Also called duramen. Encyclopedia. heartwood, the central, woody core of a tree,
no longer serving for the conduction of water and dissolved minerals; ...
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Sapwood appears lighter in color than the heartwood (center of tree).
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The wood near the outside of the tree. Usually lighter in color than heartwood.
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Definition of heartwood - WordReference.com Dictionary
heartwood. A, noun. 1, heartwood, duramen. the older inactive central wood of a
tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood ...
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Spanish Terms for Forestry
duramen, HEARTWOOD. duramen anormal, ABNORMAL HEARTWOOD. dureza (firmeza),
HARDNESS. dureza (resistencia), TOUGHNESS. ecología, ECOLOGY ...
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Dictionary of Difficult Words - duramen
duramen. n. heartwood of tree. © From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia. Helicon Publishing
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Definition the inner layers of wood which,in the growing tree,have ceased to contain living cells and in which the reserve materials(e.g.starch)have been removed or converted into more durable substances

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TERM heartwood

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Note {GRM} n.
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TERM duramen

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Note {GRM} n.
{USG} obsolete term
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TERM heart

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Note {GRM} n.
{USG} deprecated term
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TERM truewood

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Note {GRM} n.