alburnum

American  

[al-bur-nuhm] / ælˈbɜr nəm /

noun

Botany.

1. sapwood.

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alburnum British  

/ ælˈbɜːnəm /

noun

1. a former name for sapwood

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Other Word Forms

• alburnous adjective

Etymology

Origin of alburnum

1655–65; < Latin, equivalent to alb ( us ) white + -urnum neuter noun suffix

Example Sentences

The tree was evidently hollow throughout its length; but perhaps some portion of the alburnum still remained intact.

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules

The portions which are obstructed constitute the duramen or heartwood, the pervious portion the alburnum or sapwood.

From The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 by Various

Incisions are made into the alburnum of the seringueiras; below the wound small pots are attached, which twenty-four hours suffice to fill with a milky sap.

From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules

This consists in cutting a ring round the tree with axes through the bark and sapwood, or alburnum, into the brown wood beneath.

From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

The bark and alburnum crack; and thus is effected naturally, what the art of man performs for the purpose of collecting the milky juices of the hevea, the castilloa, and the caoutchouc fig-tree.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von