Look up: hardwood

1. hardwood
   A term describing broadleaf trees, usually deciduous, such as oaks, maples, cottonwood, ashes, and elms.
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2. Hardwood
   Wood from broad leafed trees.
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3. hardwood
   [adj] - made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak 2. [n] - the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
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4. hardwood
   a conventional term used to denote the wood of broad-leaved trees and it has sometimes no relationship with the physical properties of hardness or strength Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • A conventional term for the wood of broadleaved trees,and ...
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5. hardwood
   A botanical term for wood taken from a broad-leaved tree. Hardwoods are generally harder than softwoods, although not necessarily stronger, and include some of the finest furniture timbers such as mahogany, oak and walnut.
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6. hardwood
   (from the article `building construction`) ...displacing the traditional wool and cotton. It can be easily maintained, and its soft visual and tactile texture, as well as its sound-absorbing ... ...other woody plants are of two categories: gymnosperms and angiosperms. Gymnosperms, or cone-bearing trees, produce softwoods, such as pine a...
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7. Hardwood
   Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees (more strictly speaking non-monocot angiosperm trees). It may also be used for those trees themselves: these are usually broad-leaved; in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood contras...
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8. Hardwood
   Wood derived from trees such as oak, beech, maple, mahogany, and walnut. Hardwood is common for use in furniture and finish carpentry, while soft woods such as pine and spruce are common in construction.
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9. hardwood
   A general term for timber of broad leafed trees classified botanically as Angiosperm. The term has no reference to the relative hardness of the wood
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10. hardwood
    hardwood: see wood.
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11. Hardwood
    The wood from broad-leaved deciduous trees such as oak. Hardwood does not refer to the "hardness" of the wood balsa is also a hardwood and yet is possibly the "softest" wood in existence.
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12. hardwood
    A botanical term for wood taken from a broad-leaved tree. Hardwoods are generally harder than softwoods, although not necessarily stronger, and include some of the finest furniture timbers such as mahogany, oak and walnut.
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13. hardwood
    A description applied to woods from deciduous broad-leafed trees.
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14. Hardwood
    Hardwood refers to the timber of broadleaved trees.
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15. Hardwood
    [film] Hardwood is a 2004 short documentary film about Canadian director Hubert Davis` relationship to his father, former Harlem Globetrotters member Mel Davis. Through interviews with his mother, his father`s wife, his half-brother, and Mel Davis himself, Hubert Davis explores why Mel made ...
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