Quarter-sawn wood

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005342",
  "term": "Quarter-sawn wood",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Lumber that has been sawed so that the wide surfaces extend approximately at right angles to the annual growth rings. Lumber is considered edge grained when the rings form an angle of 45 degrees to 90 degrees with the wide surface of the piece.",
  "synonyms": [
    "edge-grained wood",
    "quarter-sawn lumber",
    "quarter-sawn timber",
    "vertical-grained wood"
  ],
  "subject": "Research, Technology, Methods",
  "see_also": [
    "grain and figure"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Forest Products Laboratory. 1999. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-113. Madison, WI: U.S.D.A, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 463 p",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "madera rameada"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/quarter-sawn-wood/"
}