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Sapwood

For the NATO reporting name for the R-7 Semyorka intercontinental ballistic missile, see SS-6 Sapwood.

Sapwood is the outer layer of wood in a tree, next to the bark. Sapwood will mature into heartwood as the tree grows. See also wood#Heartwood and sapwood. The newer layers are the sapwood, and will stay sapwood for a certain number of years until the tree expands and new sapwood grows over it.

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alburnum
Jan 01, 2004; alburnum See sapwood .
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sapwood
Jan 01, 2004; sapwood ( alburnum ) The outer wood of a tree trunk or branch. It consists of living xylem cells, which both conduct water and...
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sap
Jan 01, 1996; sap1 vital juice of plants OE.; sapwood, alburnum XV. OE. sæp , corr. to (M)LG., (M)Du. sap , OHG. saf (G. saft ), prob....
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Of wood. (the art of stacking wood) (column)
Jan 27, 1984; IT IS SEVEN steps from tree to hearth: select, fell, trim, cut, split, stack, build. Each step invites what Hugh Kenner once...
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