Heart-wood
121purple heart — noun 1》 (Purple Heart) (in the US) a decoration for those wounded or killed in action. 2》 the hard, dark purplish brown wood of a large American rainforest tree (genus Peltogyne) …
122common wood sorrel — noun Eurasian plant with heart shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple veined flowers • Syn: ↑cuckoo bread, ↑shamrock, ↑Oxalis acetosella • Hypernyms: ↑oxalis, ↑sorrel, ↑wood sorrel …
123blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart shaped leaves and pale blue flowers. * * * …
124ALOES WOOD — the heart of certain tropical trees, which yields a fragrant resinous substance and admits of high polish …
125blue wood aster — noun : a common perennial No. American herb (Aster cordifolius) with basal cordate leaves and numerous heads of bluish purple flowers * * * a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart shaped leaves and pale blue flowers …
126red heart — noun : incipient decay in lumber indicated by a dark red discoloration not found in sound wood; specifically : red rot 2b * * * a treelike Californian shrub, Ceanothus spinosus, of the buckthorn family, having pale blue or white flowers. [1825… …
127heartwood — heart•wood [[t]ˈhɑrtˌwʊd[/t]] n. bot the dense, dark, nonfunctioning older wood at the core of a tree trunk; duramen • Etymology: 1795–1805 …
128Shake (shingle) — A shake is a wooden shingle that is made from split logs. When these are used for covering the top of a house, the result is a shake roof.Wood selectionIn North America shakes are typically made from Western Redcedar ( Thuja plicata ), while in… …
