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Hardwood

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003051

Generally one of the botanical groups of trees that have vessels or pores and broad leaves, in contrast to the conifers or softwoods. The term has no reference to the actual hardness of the wood.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003051
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectForestry, Wildland Management
Synonymssoft hardwoods
ReferencesForest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoWood; Hardwood lignin; Hardwood forests; Hardwood plywood; Softwood
TranslationsSpanish: madera dura
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003051",
  "term": "Hardwood",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Generally one of the botanical groups of trees that have vessels or pores and broad leaves, in contrast to the conifers or softwoods. The term has no reference to the actual hardness of the wood.",
  "synonyms": [
    "soft hardwoods"
  ],
  "subject": "Forestry, Wildland Management",
  "see_also": [
    "wood",
    "hardwood lignin",
    "hardwood forests",
    "hardwood plywood",
    "softwood"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "madera dura"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/hardwood/"
}

Record 3,017 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.