Definitions for alburnum

alburnum al·bur·num

Spelling: [al-bur-nuh m]
IPA: /ælˈbɜr nəm/

Alburnum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in alburnum (ablmnruu).

Definitions for alburnum

noun

  1. sapwood.

Origin of alburnum

1655-65; Latin, equivalent to alb(us) white + -urnum neuter noun suffix

Examples for alburnum

This consists in cutting a ring round the tree with axes through the bark and sapwood, or alburnum, into the brown wood beneath.

It is through the alburnum that the ascending sap chiefly flows.

The mixture of bark and alburnum was next placed upon a smooth stone, and mashed into a fibre of a yellowish colour.

The tree was evidently hollow throughout its length; but perhaps some portion of the alburnum still remained intact.

alburnum, al-burn′um, n. in trees, the white and soft parts of wood between the inner bark and the heart-wood.

It permits the passage of sap and is known as sapwood (alburnum).

Darwin possesses the epidermis of poetry but not the cutis; the cortex without the liber, alburnum, lignum, or medulla.

A new layer of wood, or rather of alburnum, is added annually to the tree in every part just under the bark.

Word Value for alburnum
Scrable

12

Words with friends

18

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