heartwood

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Noun

heartwood (countable and uncountable; plural heartwoods)

1. The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood

   A popular myth is that heartwood is stronger than sapwood

A section of a Yew, showing 27 annual growth rings, pale sapwood and dark heartwood, and pith (centre dark spot). The dark radial lines are small knots.

Translations

wood

• Ido: durameno (io)
• Maori: taikākā (mi)
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjerneved (no) m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjerneved (nn) m

• Portuguese: cerne (pt) m, durame (pt) m
• Swedish: kärnved (sv) c