sapwood

See also: sap-wood

English

Alternative forms

• sap-wood

Etymology

From sap +‎ wood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsapwʊd/

Noun

A section of a yew showing 27 annual growth rings, pale sapwood and dark heartwood, and pith (centre dark spot). The dark radial lines are small knots.

sapwood (countable and uncountable, plural sapwoods)

1. The wood just under the bark of a stem or branch; it differs from the heartwood in color and in physiologic activity (flow of sap).

   A popular myth is that sapwood is not as strong as heartwood.

Synonyms

• alburnum

Antonyms

• heartwood

Translations

wood just under the bark

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ենթակեղեւաշերտ (hy) (entʿakeġewašert), արտաբնափայտ (hy) (artabnapʿayt)
• Bulgarian: беловина f (belovina)
• Catalan: albeca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊材／边材 (zh) (biāncái)

• Dutch: spinthout n
• Esperanto: alburno (eo)
• Finnish: manto (fi), pintapuu (fi)
• French: aubier (fr) m
• Galician: sámago m, samo m, ámago m
• German: Splintholz n
• Irish: sú-adhmad m
• Italian: alburno (it) m
• Japanese: 辺材 (ja) (へんざい, henzai)
• Korean: 변재 (ko) (byeonjae)
• Latin: alburnum n
• Macedonian: бело́вина f (belóvina)
• Maori: taitea
• Persian: برون‌چوب (fa) (borun-čub)
• Polish: biel (pl) m
• Portuguese: alburno m, samo (pt) m, borne (pt) m
• Romanian: alburn (ro) n
• Romansch: lain alv m
• Russian: за́болонь (ru) f (zábolonʹ), о́болонь (ru) f (óbolonʹ), подко́рье (ru) n (podkórʹje), мезга́ (ru) f (mezgá)
• Spanish: albura (es) f, alburno (es) m
• Swedish: splintved (sv) c, splint (sv) c, vitved c, ytved c
• Tagalog: banakal (tl), dagtaing kahoy
• Ukrainian: за́болонь f (zábolonʹ)
• Walloon: åbon (wa) m, blanc bwès (wa) m
• Welsh: gwynnin m