HARDWOOD

Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees . It may also be used for those trees themselves: these are usually broad-leaved; in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen.

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hardwood

Noun

  1. (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
  2. (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
  3. The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
  4. A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
  5. The sport of basketball, in particular the basketball court.


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