Sapwood is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SAPWOOD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the newly formed outer wood of a tree
• the soft outer layers of recently formed wood between the heartwood and the bark, containing the functioning vascular tissue.
• soft wood, just beneath the bark in tree trunks, that consists of living tissue
• The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
• newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction

Words related to SAPWOOD

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Words that contain SAPWOOD

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How to use SAPWOOD in a sentence

• The sapwood really acts as a pipe line to carry water from the roots to the top of the tree.
• In some of our largest trees the moisture is raised as high as 300 feet or more through the sapwood.
• Sapwood ailments cut off the water supply that rises from the roots.
• Where the wound is large, the exposed sapwood dies, dries out, and cracks.
• The grubs of this insect burrow in the sapwood and kill the tree or make it unfit for commercial use.
• In July they deposit their eggs in the outer sapwood, immediately under the bark of the trunk and larger branches.
• It is principally through the sapwood that the water taken in by the roots is carried up to the leaves.
• In some cases the sapwood is very thin and in others it is very thick, depending partly on the kind of tree, and partly on its age and vigor.
• The wood is white or very light colored with a silky luster and with little contrast between heart and sapwood.
• Color light brown with a slight tinge of red, the heart little if any darker than the sapwood.
• The second season it continues its work in the sapwood, and in case two or three are at work in the same tree may completely girdle it, thus destroying it.
• The color of fresh sapwood is always light, sometimes pure white, but more often with a decided tinge of green or brown.
• There is a time in the early history of every tree when its wood is all sapwood.
• As a tree increases in age and diameter an inner portion of the sapwood becomes inactive and finally ceases to function.
• There is no definite relation between the annual rings of growth and the amount of sapwood.
• Within the same species the cross-sectional area of the sapwood is roughly proportional to the size of the crown of the tree.
• As the tree gets larger, the sapwood must necessarily become thinner or increase materially in volume.
• Sapwood is thicker in the upper portion of the trunk of a tree than near the base, because the age and the diameter of the upper sections are less.
• Whatever advantages, however, that sapwood may have in this connection are due solely to its relative age and position.
• In reality there is no sound basis for discrimination against sapwood on account of strength, provided other conditions are equal.
• It is obvious that such views could apply only to sapwood, since it alone is in living condition at the time of cutting.
• With the exception of this one annual ring, or portion of one, the density of the wood substance of the sapwood is nearly the same the year round.
• Longitudinal shrinkage is accordingly least at the centre and greater toward the outside, tending to become greatest in the sapwood.
• The blocks should be cut eighteen inches long, and split into quarters, and the sap-wood dressed off.

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