heartwood
US/ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/
heartwood noun: the wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.
Noun
heartwood (countable and uncountable, plural heartwoods)
- 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.
- The staves are split from the heartwood. The heartwood is composed of dead cells; it supports the tree, but no longer has any physiological purpose. The staves must follow the grain of the wood to achieve a watertight cask, so they are split rather than sawn. — L'encyclopédie du Cognac: From log to...
heartwood meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati
heartwood in Hindi
- wood
- हृदयकाष्ठ hŕdaykāṣṭh
heartwood in Tamil
- குடன்மரம், வயிரக்கட்டை
heartwood in Malayalam
- മരത്തിന്റെ കാതൽ
heartwood in Gujarati
- wood
- હાર્ટવુડ hārṭavuḍ
More languagesFewer languages
- heartwood in Tagalog
- lasgas, tigas
- heartwood in Arabic
- خشب القلب khashab al-qalb
- heartwood in Malay
- teras kayu
- heartwood in Indonesian
- inti kayu, teras
- heartwood in Persian
- درونچوب darun-čub
- heartwood in Thai
- แก่นไม้ kàen-máai
- heartwood in Myanmar
- သစ်အူသား sacusa:
Forms of heartwood
| plural | heartwoods |
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Origin of heartwood
From heart + wood.
Questions about heartwood
- What does heartwood mean?
- Heartwood means the wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.
- What is heartwood in Hindi?
- Heartwood in Hindi is हृदयकाष्ठ (hŕdaykāṣṭh). See Heartwood meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is heartwood?
- Heartwood is a noun.
- How do you pronounce heartwood?
- Heartwood is pronounced /ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/ (US).
- What is the plural of heartwood?
- The plural of heartwood is heartwoods.
Words near heartwood in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: heartwood (page history and authors); heartwood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heartwood (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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