HARDWOOD Synonyms

• any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions

• wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars

• durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests

• any cedar of the genus Cedrus

• wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

• any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

• a red fruit with a single hard stone

• a red the color of ripe cherries

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

• nonresinous wood of a fir tree

• any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas

• valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

• American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts

• wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture

• any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish

• a shade of brown with a tinge of red

• wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring

• any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

• the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring

• a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

• a coniferous tree

• straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

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• soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar

• any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins

• hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding

• tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood

• nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell

• hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling

• any of various trees of the genus Juglans