sapwood
UK/ˈsapwʊd/
sapwood noun: 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).
Noun
sapwood (countable and uncountable, plural sapwoods)
sapwood meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
sapwood in Tamil
- சோற்றிமரம், மென்மரக் கட்டை சாற்றுக்கட்டை, மென்வைரம்
sapwood in Kannada
- ರಸದಾರು
sapwood in Tagalog
- wood just under the bark
- banakal, dagtaing kahoy
sapwood in Arabic
- wood just under the bark
- خَشَب النُّسْغِ ḵašab an-nusḡi, خَشَب كَاذِب ḵašab kāḏib
More languagesFewer languages
- sapwood in Persian
- برونچوب borun-čub
- sapwood in Vietnamese
- dác
Synonyms of sapwood
Antonyms
Forms of sapwood
| plural | sapwoods |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sap-wood |
Origin of sapwood
From sap + wood.
Questions about sapwood
- What does sapwood mean?
- Sapwood means 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).
- What is sapwood in Tamil?
- Sapwood in Tamil is சோற்றிமரம், மென்மரக் கட்டை சாற்றுக்கட்டை, மென்வைரம். See Sapwood meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sapwood?
- Sapwood is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sapwood?
- Sapwood is pronounced /ˈsapwʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sapwood?
- The plural of sapwood is sapwoods.
Words near sapwood in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sapwood (page history and authors); sapwood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sapwood (Kannada 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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