adj
Meaning 1
Made of interlocking hardwood boards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
hardwood
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈhɑɹdˌwʊd/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 R D W UH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood.
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noun
Meaning 3
(in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods.
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noun
Meaning 4
The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: business, forestry
Examples
- This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here.
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noun
Meaning 5
A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.
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noun
Meaning 6
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 7
the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wood
History
Etymology
From hard + wood. The term refers to the seed coat of the tree's seeds; it does not refer to the degree of hardness of the tree's wood, but it seems to do so and is usually assumed to do so by speakers not well informed about trees and timber.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: bois dur — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- French: bois de feuillu — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- German: Laubholz — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- German: Hartholz — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Irish: crua-adhmad — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Italian: legno di latifoglia — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Māori: rākau mārō — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Portuguese: madeira dura — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Spanish: madera dura — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Swedish: ädelträ — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Tagalog: tigas — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
- Yup'ik: tupugaq — the wood from any dicotyledonous tree
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