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sapwood

[ sap-wood ]

noun

, Botany.
  1. the softer part of the wood between the inner bark and the heartwood.


sapwood

/ ˈsæpˌwʊd /

noun

  1. the soft wood, just beneath the bark in tree trunks, that consists of living tissue Compare heartwood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


sapwood

/ săpwd′ /

  1. The younger layers of new wood produced by the interior side of the vascular cambium within a tree trunk. Sapwood is active in the conduction of water and is usually lighter in color than heartwood.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sapwood1

First recorded in 1785–95; sap 1 + wood 1
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Example Sentences

How to tap a treeDrill a hole through the bark, about 2 inches into the sapwood, angling the hole upward.

Diseases of the sapwood cut off the water supply, which is pumped upward from the roots.

Upon exposure by a wound, the sapwood just underneath the bark dies, dries out, and checks.

A feller that kin kick like that didn't orter be called Sapwood nor Saphead nor Sapanything.

It is a bright red-brown with a thin outer edge of paler sapwood.

This external evidence should be supplemented by cutting down to the sapwood.

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