English
Etymology
From heart + wood.
Pronunciation
Noun
heartwood (countable and uncountable, plural heartwoods)
- The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.
- Coordinate term: sapwood
- A popular myth is that heartwood is stronger than sapwood.
- The staves are split from the heartwood. The heartwood is composed of dead cells; it supports the tree, but no longer has any physiological purpose. The staves must follow the grain of the wood to achieve a watertight cask, so they are split rather than sawn. — L'encyclopédie du Cognac: From log to stave
Translations
wood
- Albanian: myjë (sq) f
- Armenian: բնամիջուկ (hy) (bnamiǰuk)
- Bulgarian: сърцевина на дърво f (sǎrcevina na dǎrvo)
- Catalan: duramen m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 心材 (zh) (xīncái)
- Dutch: kernhout n
- Finnish: sydänpuu (fi), ydinpuu (fi)
- French: bois de cœur (fr) m, duramen (fr) m, bois parfait (fr) m
- Galician: cerne (gl) m
- German: Kernholz (de) n
- Ido: durameno (io)
- Indonesian: inti kayu, teras (id)
- Irish: croí-adhmad m
- Italian: durame m, cuore del legno m
- Japanese: 心材 (ja) (しんざい, shinzai)
- Khmer: ក្រាក់ (km) (krak)
- Korean: 심재 (simjae)
- Macedonian: срце́вина f (srcévina)
- Maori: taikākā, tōiki, karei, paiore
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: kjerneved m, kjerne (no) m, alved m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kjerneved m
- Persian: درونچوب (fa) (darun-čub)
- Polish: twardziel (pl) f
- Portuguese: cerne (pt) m, durame m, âmago (pt) m
- Romansch: lain da cor m
- Russian: ядро́вая древеси́на f (jadróvaja drevesína), сердцеви́на (ru) f (serdcevína)
- Spanish: duramen (es) m, cerno (es)
- Swedish: kärnved (sv) c
- Tagalog: lasgas, tigas
- Welsh: rhuddin (cy) m
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