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softwood

[ US /ˈsɔftˌwʊd/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒftwʊd/ ]
NOUN
  1. wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

How To Use softwood In A Sentence

  • Two feller buncher teams remain on duty, but these chiefly harvest hardwoods as well as very small diameter softwoods.
  • In these areas, most of the forest softwood is now dead, creating openings in the once-dense evergreen canopy.
  • PCP was widely used in the timber industry for years as a cheap treatment for sapstain, a fungal infection commonly found in softwoods such as pine.
  • O'Connor wanted the club to purchase another 28 acres of dense forest, thick with softwoods and pines.
  • All bass necks are made from 4 x 2 planed softwood and should be painted black on one side and a sort-of vaguely off-white on the other.
  • Perhaps a green roof, public art, a crèche, undyed flax blinds, softwood finishes. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not the best place to look for sawlogs, so we're trying to send the processor in first to make sawlogs where they can from both hardwood and softwood.
  • If you choose to use new stock from the lumber yard, both hardwoods and softwood are good choices.
  • My home in New Jersey was cleared of all trees in 1965… today it is replete with both hard- and softwoods as well as evergreens, thanks to family endeavors throughout the area.
  • The train passes mature hardwood maple, beech, yellow birch, hickory and American linden trees, and softwood alders and willows weeping over a calm pond.
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