Definitions for heartwoods

heartwoods heart·wood

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

Heartwoods is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 808 anagrams from letters in heartwoods (adehoorstw).

Definitions for heartwoods

noun

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

Origin of heartwoods

First recorded in 1795-1805; heart + wood1

Examples for heartwoods

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for heartwoods
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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