Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wood of a eudicot or a magnoliid, such as an oak, maple, or magnolia.
- noun A eudicot or magnoliid tree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hard wood (see
hard wood , under wood, n.), as a tree; bearing trees with hard wood, as a forest; made of hard wood: as, a hardwood floor. - noun A hardwood tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers); also items made from such wood.
- adjective Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; consisting of a hardwood; ; -- of wood and wooden objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable (mostly in botany and forestry) The
wood from anydicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness. - noun countable (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial
timbers , and are at least average in hardness. - noun countable, forestry The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
- noun uncountable A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
- noun sports, slang The sport of basketball, in particular the basketball court.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
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Examples
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I would be hunting in hardwood forest with some greens and cut corn fields.
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He had never before appreciated a plain hardwood floor with a couple of wolfskins; it sure beat all the carpets in creation.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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Figured walnut now costs a king's ransom, laminated hardwood is a practical and affordable choice for my sporterweights, and a synthetic stock is a stable choice for varmint and target rifles.
What kind of gun stock do you prefer and why? Synthetic or wood. 2009
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They call it hardwood for a reason: its lack of softness.
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The sound of the sneakers on hardwood is actually quite nice.
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Figured walnut now costs a king's ransom, laminated hardwood is a practical and affordable choice for my sporterweights, and a synthetic stock is a stable choice for varmint and target rifles.
What kind of gun stock do you prefer and why? Synthetic or wood. 2009
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Floors Available in hardwood, granite and other luxe materials.
Huf House's DIY Mansions Francesca Levy 2010
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They call it hardwood for a reason: its lack of softness.
mrissa: Staining trim some more mrissa 2010
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The stock is plain hardwood, and the gun has an exposed hammer and breaks open by means of a button on the right side of the receiver.
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The stock is plain hardwood, and the gun has an exposed hammer and breaks open by means of a button on the right side of the receiver.
Slugger Lineup 2004
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