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Duramen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Botany See heartwood.

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n. heartwood

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In botany, the central wood or heart-wood in the trunk of an exogenous tree.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood

Word Usage

"It lies next the bark, and after a course of years, sometimes many, as in the case of oaks, sometimes few, as in the case of firs, it becomes hardened and ultimately forms the duramen or heartwood."

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wood