Definitions for close-grained

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Spelling: [klohs-greynd]
IPA: /ˈkloʊsˈgreɪnd/

Close-Grained is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 2907 anagrams from letters in close-grained (-acdeegilnors).

Definitions for close-grained

adjective

  1. (of wood) fine in texture or having inconspicuous annual rings.

Origin of close-grained

First recorded in 1745-55

Examples for close-grained

Wood is light brown and light weight but hard, strong, and close-grained.

The wood of nearly all the species of Diospyros is hard and close-grained.

But the stones of the pebble bank are a close-grained, yellow-spotted rock.

The result is a thoroughly cooked, close-grained, crisp biscuit.

Its timber is of some value, being white, tough, and close-grained.

Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live.

Flesh white, zoned or marked with yellow, close-grained and sugary.

The fracture, close-grained, is that of steel or bell metal.

The timber is tough, close-grained, white, and looks more like pine than any other of the spruces.

Wood not as hard as rock maple, but strong, close-grained and brittle.

Word Value for close-grained
Scrable

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Words with friends

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