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sap-wood

sap-wood is the alternative form of sapwood.

Meaning of sapwood

Noun

sapwood (countable and uncountable, plural sapwoods)

  1. The wood just under the bark of a stem or branch; it differs from the heartwood in color and in physiologic activity (flow of sap).
    • A popular myth is that sapwood is not as strong as heartwood.
    Synonyms:
    alburnum

Forms of sap-wood

pluralsap-woods

Questions about sap-wood

What is sap-wood the alternative form of?
Sap-wood is the alternative form of sapwood.

Words near sap-wood in the dictionary

  1. sap shield
  2. sap shields
  3. sap stain
  4. sap tube
  5. sap tubes
  6. sap-wood
  7. sap-woods
  8. sapa
  9. Sapa Inca
  10. Sapa Incas
  11. Sapa Loboc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sap-wood (page history and authors); sapwood (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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