Hardwood

Quick meaning: Hardwood is a noun meaning (countable, mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

Meaning

(countable, mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

More Meanings

1. (countable) (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
2. (countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
3. (uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
4. (of a floor) Made of interlocking hardwood boards.
5. (sports, slang) 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.

Example Sentences

Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood.

This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here.

Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods.

You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.

Word Forms

• hardwoods

Antonyms for hardwood

Common opposites include softwood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coniferous, oak, broadleaf, timber, wood, deciduous.

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