sapwood's Usage Examples:

Three of the eight samples had complete sapwood and could be precisely dated.

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

The most species-rich microhabitats were found in association with fallen trees and branches: decaying sap under bark and decaying sapwood.

It has light yellow sapwood and a brown heartwood.

cambium layer A thin layer of specialized cells which lies between the inner bark and the sapwood.

Stumps thirty or forty years old, at least, will still be sound at the core, though the sapwood has all become vegetable mould, as appears by the scales of the thick bark forming a ring level with the earth four or five inches distant from the heart.

The larvae of furniture beetle can easily attack the sapwood of our usual structural timbers.

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

sylvestris; large quantities are exported to Britain under the name of " New York yellow pine "; the sapwood is perishable.

Synonyms:

tree, wood,

Antonyms:

fauna,