Word Meanings - DURAMEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

Related words: (words related to DURAMEN)

• HEARTWOOD
  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 softer sapwood or alburnum.
• EXOGENOUS
  Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.