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sapwoods

sapwoods is the plural 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

Questions about sapwoods

What is sapwoods the plural of?
Sapwoods is the plural of sapwood.

Words near sapwoods in the dictionary

  1. Saputos
  2. SAPVS
  3. SAPVSes
  4. SAPVSs
  5. sapwood
  6. sapwoods
  7. sapyaw
  8. sapyaws
  9. sapygid
  10. sapygids
  11. saqiya

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sapwoods (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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