Word Meanings - HEARTWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to HEARTWOOD)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• MATURITY
  1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note,
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• TECHNICALLY
  In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.
• CENTRAL; CENTRALE
  The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
• HEMATURIA
  Passage of urine mingled with blood.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDIFFERENCY
  Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all,
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to