Crossword clues for heartwood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood
WordNet
n. the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood [syn: duramen]
Wikipedia
Heartwood is wood nearer the pith of a stem or branch, different in colour from sapwood.
Heartwood may also refer to:
- Heartwood Forest, which, when complete, will be the largest new native forest in England
- Heartwood House, a Canadian charity
- Heartwood – The Southwest Virginia Artisan Gateway, a building in Virginia, United States
Usage examples of "heartwood".
Her muted copper shine became a ruddy glow, like the light of a blood moon low in the sky, or the rich heartwood of the fruit tree she touched.
The heartwood spanned the height of the forest, from bed to apex, and provided the rooting foundation for most of its trees.
Inside the heartwood, a transit system piped nutrients, water, life-forms, heat, and light as Summer House actively maintained an equilibrium between its varied components.
He leapt off the heartwood and caught a large branch heavy with fruit.
Sax began to scamper along the heartwood with the happy abandon of a child at play.
Along the heartwood they ran, for nearly a quarter mile before it finally branched.
But what happened when a forest giant, rooted in the heartwood, toppled?
Kirstin saw a thin weave of branches below him, and then a route of heartwood, at least three hundred feet below.
Kurgan saw that he was approaching a heartwood door bound in bands of thick bronze incised with Kundalan runes.
It was a formal garden, with four rows of smooth-trunked heartwood trees, planted at right angles to one another.
Pnin told himself as he passed between the narrow rows of heartwood trees.
Fleet-Admiral Pnin paused in his pacing, his clear-eyed gaze fixed at a spot between two of the largest heartwood trees, where he knew a white marble bench to be.
A gargantuan holoportrait of him hanging in the vast echoing front court stared down at Leyytey as she was shown through the imposing polished heartwood double doors.
These were guarded by gates whose petrified heartwood bars were thorned along their lengths, spiked at their tops.
On either side were closed double doors of heartwood, their intricate carvings half-hidden under layers of dust, grease and grime.