HARDWOOD
Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from 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.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Hardwood
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hardwood
Noun
- (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
- (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
- The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
- A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
- The sport of basketball, in particular the basketball court.
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