English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From sap + wood .
Pronunciation
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Noun
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.
sapwood (countable and uncountable , plural sapwoods )
The wood just under the bark of a stem or branch , different in color from the heartwood .
A popular myth is that sapwood is not as strong as heartwood.
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Translations
wood just under the bark
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: albeca f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 邊材 / 边材 (zh) ( biāncái ) , 边材 (zh) ( biāncái )
Dutch: spinthout n
Esperanto: alburno (eo)
Finnish: manto (fi) , pintapuu (fi)
French: aubier (fr) m
Galician: sámago m , samo m , ámago m
German: Splintholz n
Irish: sú-adhmad m
Italian: alburno (it) m
Japanese: 辺材 (ja) ( へんざい, henzai )
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Korean: 변재 (ko) ( byeonjae )
Maori: taitea
Persian: برونچوب (fa) ( borun-čub )
Polish: biel (pl) m inan
Portuguese: alburno m , samo (pt) m , borne (pt) m
Romanian: alburn (ro) n
Russian: за́болонь (ru) f ( zábolonʹ ) , о́болонь (ru) f ( óbolonʹ ) , подко́рье (ru) n ( podkórʹje ) , мезга́ (ru) f ( mezgá )
Spanish: albura (es) f , alburno m
Tagalog: banakal (tl) , dagtaing kahoy
Ukrainian: о́болонь f ( óbolonʹ )
Walloon: åbon (wa) m , blanc bwès (wa) m