Soft wood of a tree, between the bark and the heartwood.
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Examples for "sapwood "
Examples for "sapwood "
1 This external evidence should be supplemented by cutting down to the sapwood .
2 Where the wound is large, the exposed sapwood dies, dries out, and cracks.
3 As the tree gets larger, the sapwood must necessarily become thinner or increase materially in volume.
4 There is no definite relation between the annual rings of growth and the amount of sapwood .
5 A stab wound revealed the bark loose and full of holes which extended into the sapwood .
1 The great shrinking of the sap-wood of the persimmon tree makes the wood of but trifling value commercially.
1 Because it is formed by branches of those returning vessels that deposit the new alburnum .
2 If we choose, we may study the alburnum only.
3 ALBURNUM (sapwood), the outermost and youngest part of the wood of a tree, through which the sap rises.
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