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Meaning of "latewood" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF LATEWOOD

ˈleɪtˌwʊd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LATEWOOD

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Latewood is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LATEWOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wood

Wood is a hard, fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also mediates the transfer of water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber. The Earth contains about one trillion tonnes of wood, which grows at a rate of 10 billion tonnes per year. As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy. In 1991, approximately 3.5 billion cubic meters of wood were harvested.

Definition of latewood in the English dictionary

The definition of latewood in the dictionary is wood that is formed late in a tree's growing season and which forms the darker part of the annual ring of growth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LATEWOOD

bentwood · Bollywood · Brentwood · bulletwood · coltwood · driftwood · fatwood · Fleetwood · fruitwood · giltwood · heartwood · Hollywood · lightwood · nutwood · softwood · splintwood · sweetwood · walnutwood · Westwood · whitewood

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LATEWOOD

lateralise · laterality · lateralization · lateralize · laterally · Lateran · Lateran palace · laterigrade · laterisation · laterite · lateritic · lateritious · laterization · laterize · lateroversion · latescence · latescent · latest · latex · latex rubber

WORDS THAT END LIKE LATEWOOD

bluewood · Boldrewood · candlewood · canoewood · copsewood · eaglewood · fiddlewood · firewood · from the wood · greasewood · harewood · lacewood · lancewood · Littlewood · marblewood · moosewood · orangewood · pinewood · rosewood · snakewood · zantewood

Synonyms and antonyms of latewood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «latewood» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LATEWOOD

Find out the translation of latewood to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of latewood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «latewood» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

晚材
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

madera tardía
570 millions of speakers
en

English

latewood
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

latewood
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

latewood
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

latewood
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

lenho tardio
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

latewood
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

bois final
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Latewood
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Spätholz
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

晩材
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

latewood
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Latine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

latewood
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

latewood
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उशीरा इ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

latewood
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

legno tardivo
65 millions of speakers
pl

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latewood
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

latewood
40 millions of speakers
ro

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latewood
30 millions of speakers
el

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latewood
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

latewood
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

latewood
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

latewood
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of latewood

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LATEWOOD»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of latewood
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about latewood

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LATEWOOD»

Discover the use of latewood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to latewood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Concise Encyclopedia of the Structure of Materials
The wood formed at the beginning of the growing season is the earlywood (in north temperate regions often referred to as springwood); the wood formed later in the season is the latewood (in north temperate regions often referred to as ...
J. W. Martin, 2006
2
Fiber bonding and tensile stress-strain properties of ...
Interfiber bonding, tensile stress-strain properties, fiber collapse, and fiber-to-fiber conformability at fiber crossings were studied on handsheets composed entirely on unbeaten earlywood and latewood loblolly pine kraft fibers.
William E. Smith, 1972
3
Physiology of Woody Plants
The boundary between the earlywood and latewood of the same ring can be very sharp or gradual. The boundary is sharp in hard pines, Douglas-fir, larch, and juniper. Ladefoged (1952) found an abrupt earlywood–latewood transition in ...
Stephen G. Pallardy, 2010
4
Fine Woodworking on Wood and how to Dry it: 41 Articles
Severely raised grain on pith side of flat-sawed hemlock (center) results from harder latewood being compressed into softer earlywood during planing, then springing back later. Honeycomb checks in red oak (right) can cause failure along ...
Fine Woodworking, Madeleine Kahn, 1986
5
Wood Quality and its Biological Basis
radial diameter and wall thickness of latewood tracheids have the most influence on wood density (Wimmer, 1995). Latewood percentage can explain up to 60% of the density variation in Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii; de Kort etal., ...
John Barnett, George Jeronimidis, 2009
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Methods of Dendrochronology: Applications in the ...
Strategies and case studies Morphometric Analysis of Earlywood to Latewood Transitions Coniferous woods, particularly those displaying a gradual transition between ear- lywood and latewood, pose special problems when attempting to ...
E.R. Cook, L.A. Kairiukstis, 1990
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Physiology of Woody Plants
TABLE 16.2 Variations in the Specific Gravity of Earlywood and Latewood in Four Species of Young Pines of the Southern United States8 Specific gravity Species Earlywood Latewood Longleaf pine 0.280 0.690 Loblolly pine 0.310 0.625 ...
Paul Kramer, 1979
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The Encyclopedia of Wood
Light bands are earlywood, dark bands latewood. An annual (growth) ring is composed of an inner earlywood zone and outer latewood zone. Growth ringsare most readily seen in species withsharp contrast between latewood formed in one  ...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2013
9
Wood
This causes botanists to say the hickories are highly unstable Working with hickory Both true .uul pecan hickories are ring- porous or semi-ring-porous wixxls , with large earlywood pores and smaller latewood pores. However, like walnut ...
Fine Woodworking, 1995
10
Primary Wood Processing: Principles and Practice
This is a response to seasonal climatic variations and the formation of latewood. The density variation across a growth ring far exceeds the density variation between trees. As an extreme case, Harris (1969) cites the contrast between latewood ...
J. C. F. Walker, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LATEWOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term latewood is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Two Thousand Years of Northern European Summer Temperatures
(2014) write that tree-ring chronologies of maximum latewood density (MXD) "are most suitable to reconstruct annually resolved summer ... «CO2 Science Magazine, Dec 14»
2
Scientists Shed 'Light' on Arctic Tree Divergence Problem
The dense latewood rings tend to be denser during warm years in cooler climates. Divergence doesn't appear to be a huge issue, if it weren't ... «Nature World News, May 14»
3
Thug pulled knife on young girls in Wolverhampton robbery
Luke Latewood had a scarf round his neck and his hood up when he pulled a knife on the pair aged 13 and 14. He struck on the tow path off ... «expressandstar.com, Jan 14»
4
Wildfires Double, Drought Redoubles
This study looked at the faint, narrow spurt of late “latewood” summer growth in Douglas firs and ponderosa pines. #The scientists discovered ... «Payson Roundup, Jun 13»
5
Tree rings detail 470 years of 'monsoon failure'
Few teased out the seasonal climate signal recorded in the narrow part of the growth ring laid down in late summer known as latewood. «Futurity: Research News, Mar 13»
6
Monsoon failure key to long droughts in Southwest
The team's research report, "North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood," is scheduled for publication March ... «Phys.Org, Mar 13»
7
Tree Ring Circus: Paleoclimate Redux
... of high-latitude (Fennoscandian) summer temperature changes over the past two millennia based on Maximum Latewood Density ('MXD'). «ThinkProgress, Sep 12»
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Northern Scandinavian Temperatures: It's a Whole New Ball Game
... Esper et al. describe how they developed "a 2000-year summer temperature reconstruction based on 587 high-precision maximum latewood ... «CO2 Science Magazine, Jul 12»
9
New Study Thoroughly Debunks Global Warming, Will Media Notice?
Here, we present new evidence based on maximum latewood density ... The long-term trend now revealed in maximum latewood density data ... «NewsBusters, Jul 12»
10
Insight: tree-ring maximum density offers promise as Alaskan climate …
Maximum latewood density measures the thickening and lignification of the cell walls produced by trees towards the end of the growing season ... «environmentalresearchweb, Jan 12»
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