softwood

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005912",
  "term": "softwood",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Generally, one of the botanical groups of trees that have no vessels and in most cases have needlelike or scalelike leaves, the conifers, also the wood produced by such trees. The term has no reference to the actual hardness of the wood.",
  "synonyms": [
    "soft wood"
  ],
  "subject": "Forestry, Wildland Management",
  "see_also": [
    "wood",
    "softwood cuttings",
    "softwood lignin",
    "mannans",
    "hardwood",
    "softwood plywood"
  ],
  "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 blanda"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/softwood/"
}