Definitions for heartwood

heartwood heart·wood

Spelling: [hahrt-woo d]
IPA: /ˈhɑrtˌwʊd/

Heartwood is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in heartwood (adehoortw).

Definitions for heartwood

noun

  1. the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.

Origin of heartwood

First recorded in 1795-1805; heart + wood1

Examples for heartwood

The heartwood forms while the tree is living, not after it dies.

This is a small tree, which usually develops little or no heartwood.

It was significant that practically all of the checking occurred in the heartwood.

She also authored heartwood, a story collection for adult literacy students, and edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South.

Posts sawed from the heartwood of large trees would do better.

The pores in the sapwood are open, but many of them are closed in heartwood.

For some reason, the heartwood of certain species is prone to decay.

The summerwood is narrow, but dark in color in the heartwood.

The duramen or heartwood is the inner, darker part of the log.

The heartwood is darker than in most oaks, and the sapwood is brown.

Word Value for heartwood
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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