hardwood
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Definitions ofhardwood
- (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
Example: "Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood."
- (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
Example: "Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods."
- The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
Example: "This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here."
- A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
Example: "You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk."
- The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.
- Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.
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