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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.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tree 70% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Duramen 92% connected

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adansonia noun · 78% connection

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…

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Anisogamy noun · 78% connection

(biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size)

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Body noun · 78% connection

The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of…

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Box noun · 78% connection

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…

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Brazilwood noun · 78% connection

tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry

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Bude burner unknown · 78% connection

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas…

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Calamander wood unknown · 78% connection

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of…

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Carbuncle noun · 78% connection

A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny har…

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Cocoa palm unknown · 78% connection

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

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Crust noun · 78% connection

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

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Delamination noun · 78% connection

Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentia…

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Dichromatic adjective · 78% connection

Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.

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Ectental adjective · 78% connection

Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture…

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Emplecton noun · 78% connection

A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross…

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Garnet noun · 78% connection

A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and confo…

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Grass tree noun · 78% connection

elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of…

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Hard superl. · 78% connection

Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping…

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Hornbeam noun · 78% connection

A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is c…

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