Crossword-Solution: DURAMEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Duramen | n. | The heartwood of an exogenous tree. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DURAMEN | anagram | MAUNDER, UNARMED |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DURAMEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Heartwood | 2 answers |
| TREE bark, underlayer of | 4 answers |
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Sentences with DURAMEN (5)
The wood of the tree, in comparison with the bark, is relatively poor in silex, the duramen of an old tree giving only 2.5 per cent of silex.
Sap and Heartwood Wood is composed of duramen or heartwood, and alburnum or sapwood, and when dry consists approximately of 49 per cent by weight of carbon, 6 per cent of hydrogen, 44 per cent of oxygen, and 1 per cent of ash, which is fairly uniform for all species.
The portions which are obstructed constitute the _duramen_ or heartwood, the pervious portion the _alburnum_ or sapwood.
DURAMEN (a rare Latin word, meaning hardness, from _durus_, hard), a botanical term for the inner, harder wood of a tree, the heart-wood.
Sap-wood and Heart-wood, Lignum Vitae.] (3) The _wood_ of most exogens is made up of two parts, a lighter part called the sap-wood or splint-wood or alburnum, and a darker part called the heart-wood or duramen, Fig.