Noun:

குடன்மரம்,

heartwood's Usage Examples:

should be converted economical method, but, as will be seen in the diagram, the quality of the boards will vary very much, some consisting almost entirely of sap-wood cut at a tangent to the annular rings such as a, b, c, whilst the centre boards contain the heartwood cut in the best way at right angles across the annual rings as d, e, f.

It has light yellow sapwood and a brown heartwood.

A variety of the spruce, abounding in some parts of Nor way, produces a red heartwood, not easy to distinguish from that of the Norway B pine (Scotch fir), and imported with it into England as "red deal" or "pine.

The key lies in the way in which growth rings change from being juvenile sapwood to becoming mature heartwood in later life.

"The heartwood varies in colour from dark brown to pale yellowishbrown; hard, close-grained, and little liable to split accidentally, it is, for a hard wood, easy to work.

The heartwood of the finer kinds of Scotch fir is of a deep brownish-red colour, abounding in the resin to which its durability is probably due.

The stressing is achieved as the inner sapwood shrinks as it dries and becomes heartwood.

The timber is not of great value, but the heartwood is dense and of deeper colour than that of S.

heartwood of young trees 5.

The wood when young is white, but old heartwood is yellow or brownish.

For this reason, cedar panel siding made primarily of heartwood fetches a premium price.

Synonyms:

wood, tree, duramen,

Antonyms:

fauna,