SOFTWOOD

n. any wood that is light and easy to cut; tree having soft wood

Softwood is a generic term used in woodworking and the lumber industries for wood from conifers (needle-bearing trees from the order Pinales). Softwood-producing trees include pine, spruce, cedar, fir, larch, douglas-fir, hemlock, cypress, redwood and yew.As the name suggests, softwoods are obviously softer than hardwoods, but there are notable exceptions; Douglas fir, a softwood, is harder and stronger than many hardwoods, while balsa, technically a hardwood, is much softer than even most softwoods.The difference between softwood and hardwood is found in the microscopic structure of the wood. Softwood contains only two types of cells, longitudinal wood fibers (or tracheids) and transverse ray cells. Softwoods lack vessel elements for water transport that hardwoods have; these vessels manifest in hardwoods as pores. In softwood water transport within the tree is via the tracheids only. Some softwoods, such as pine, spruce, larch, and Douglas fir, have resin canals, which provide transport of resin as a defense against injury.
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Noun
1. wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
(synonym) deal
(hypernym) wood
(hyponym) pulpwood
Adjective
1. made of the easy-to-cut wood of a coniferous tree, as e.g. pine; "softwood lumber"
(antonym) hardwood

Synonyms and related words:
arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, beam, billet, board, boarding, bushlike, bushy, citrous, clapboard, coniferous, cord, cordwood, deal, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, driftwood, evergreen, firewood, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, nondeciduous, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, piny, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shrubby, shrublike, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, treelike, two-by-four, weatherboard, wood
  

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