Crossword-Solution: HEARTWOOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heartwood | n. | The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “HEARTWOOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DURAMEN | 1 answer |
| TREE trunk, dense inner part of | 1 answer |
| The dense inner part of a tree trunk, yielding the hardest wood | 1 answer |
| central core of dark hard wood in tree trunks | 1 answer |
| aloes wood | 3 answers |
| TREE, central part of | 3 answers |
| TREE, solid central part of | 3 answers |
| TREE bark, underlayer of | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMECZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HEARTWOOD (5)
People and Towns of Puget Sound As one strolls in the woods about the logging camps, most of the lumbermen are found to be interesting people to meet, kind and obliging and sincere, full of knowledge concerning the bark and sapwood and heartwood of the trees they cut, and how to fell them without unnecessary breakage, on ground where they may be most advantageously sawed into logs and loaded for removal.
Heartwood is darker than the sapwood, sometimes only slightly, but in other instances it may vary from a light-brown color to jet black.
Until recently, the vegetable world was the source of practically all coloring matter, the pulverized root of the madder plant yielding the reds, the leaves and stems of the indigo plant the blues, the heartwood of the tropical logwood tree the blacks and grays, and the fruit of certain palm and locust trees yielding the soft browns.
Prepared form of the heartwood, used as an insecticide and in medicine as a tonic to dispel intestinal worms quoits Game; player throws rings of rope or flattened metal at an upright peg, attempting to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.
Nearly all the larger trees in the Fuegian forests have the heartwood decayed, and are worthless as timber.
Quotes with HEARTWOOD (3)
Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember which side her father had parted his hair on, and she’d realized again what she’d learned at five when her mother left — that what made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting the small things first, the smell of the soap her mother had bath…
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against…