Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the central wood or heart-wood in the trunk of an exogenous tree.
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- noun (Bot.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
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- noun botany
heartwood
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- noun the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It lies next the bark, and after a course of years, sometimes many, as in the case of oaks, sometimes few, as in the case of firs, it becomes hardened and ultimately forms the duramen or heartwood.
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The duramen or heartwood is the inner, darker part of the log.
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It is really imperfect wood, while the duramen or heartwood is the perfect wood; the heartwood of the mature tree was the sapwood of its earlier years.
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Wood is composed of duramen or heartwood, and alburnum or sapwood, and when dry consists approximately of 49 per cent by weight of carbon, 6 per cent of hydrogen, 44 per cent of oxygen, and 1 per cent of ash, which is fairly uniform for all species.
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-- The logwood of commerce is the red heart wood, or duramen, of a fine lofty growing tree (_Haematroxylon Campechianum_), growing in Campeachy and the bay of Honduras, and which is also now common in the woods of Jamaica and St. Domingo.
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The wood of the tree, in comparison with the bark, is relatively poor in silex, the duramen of an old tree giving only 2.5 per cent of silex.
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In the Fagus sylvestris, white beech, "the duramen or perfect wood, bears a remarkably small proportion to its alburnum.
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See heartwood.
August 7, 2007