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Usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
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duramen
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n. the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood [syn: heartwood ]
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n. (context botany English) heartwood
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Heartwood \Heart"wood`\ (h[aum]rt"w[oo^]d`), n. The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen , and distinguished from the ...
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redirect Wood#Heartwood and sapwood
Usage examples of duramen.
The wood of the tree, in comparison with the bark, is relatively poor in silex, the duramen of an old tree giving only 2.