1The wood from a broadleaved tree (such as oak, ash, or beech) as distinguished from that of conifers.

1. 1.1 A tree producing hardwood.
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   the land isn't fertile enough for hardwoods

   as modifier hardwood forests

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   • During the storms of January 7-8, more than 500,000 trees were blown down across Cumbria, including hardwoods, such as oaks, birch, beech and sycamore.
   • The whole centre of the space has been covered by a low and most elegantly detailed platform of lpe, a sustainable tropical hardwood, which is highly resistant to rot and wear.
   • For example, balsa wood is one of the lightest, least dense woods there is, and it's considered a hardwood.
   • The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes.
   • The trees are bigger, of course: We see several specimens of roble, a prized hardwood, that might be a few centuries old.
   • Bangalore's Conservator of Forests V. Rangaswamy says Mahogany are hardwood trees and deep-rooted and hence, they withstand the strongest winds.
   • There are fragrant conifer forests, rich stands of hardwoods and rolling oak savannahs, pierced by glittering rivers.
   • Carved from a dense forest of hardwoods and pines in the southwest Richmond, Va., suburb of Manakin-Sabot, most of Kinloch's holes are unusually broad.
   • The champion bluegum may be the biggest naturalized tree and the biggest hardwood in America, but for many, it's also the biggest weed.
   • Indonesia banned in 2001 the sale of ramin, a blond tropical hardwood, and registered it under CITES Appendix 3 to curb the illegal trade.
   • Modern Metasequoia has relatively low-density wood compared with other temperate conifer and hardwood species.
   • Soil nutrients and nitrification appeared to vary more by land use in hardwood stands than in conifer stands.
   • The breadfruit trees, cycads and tall hardwoods of that forest hide hornbills, sea eagles and monkeys.
   • In Washington, they use three main types of habitat: forested riversides with large cottonwoods and other hardwoods, Ponderosa pine forests, especially at the lower edge of the tree line, and Garry oak stands.
   • These two species survive as relict populations in the mountains of eastern Mexico, sometimes in high elevation conifer stands but also in stands at mid-elevation that include hardwood trees.
   • Kenegy owns a small mill and, with the hardwood he selectively harvests, produces high-quality furniture stock.
   • Testing of the fungus on several economically important hardwood and softwood trees showed no harmful effects.
   • Prakosa added that the Malaysians should not deny the report as there was solid evidence of the activities of receiving illegal ramin hardwood from Indonesia.
   • The spotlight falls on mahogany this week with news of the first worldwide agreement to ban the international trade of the endangered tropical hardwood.
   • Since plant communities could influence soil processes, the plots were stratified into two broad vegetation classes: conifer and hardwood.
   • French Guiana's economy relies on the export of tropical hardwood and valuable seafood such as shrimp.
   • Two years postburn, we found a significant reduction in subcanopy cover of oaks (but not of other subcanopy hardwoods) and in the shrub cover of scrubby oaks, other hardwoods and palmettos.
   • Myers estimated that logging for tropical hardwoods such as ebony and mahogany was causing the elimination of about 20,000 square miles of tropical forests per year.
   • Over the years plantations have been established in areas that were once covered in indigenous hardwood like yellow wood, ironwood and red pear trees.
   • In some areas, Barley says, the beetle kill has caused a conversion from a mixed conifer forest to one dominated by hardwoods, most notably oaks.
   • Rich hardwoods of myrtle, blackwood, sassafras and Huon pine mingle with common eucalypts.
   • Despite its superior strength, teak wood is not too heavy, making export of the hardwood popular.
   • Most conifers and a few hardwoods, such as sweetgum and tuliptree, have excurrent forms.
   • He described four principal forest types: upland pines, upland pine-hardwood, upland hardwood, and bottomland hardwood.
   • Lime trees are a hardwood tree, and limewood's particular structural character lends itself well to carving, allowing tools to be used both along the grain and to some extent axially.
   • Increasingly, all PEI contractors are moving into mixed hardwood / softwood stands as the old field white spruce stands become scarcer.
   • Ten plots each were placed in bottomland hardwood, upland hardwood, and stands clearcut in 1993.
   • On an exceptionally warm fall day, my wife and I went for a walk at a nature preserve, a mixed area of open sphagnum bogs and glacially derived sand dunes, now overgrown with white pine and hardwoods.
   • Although nitrification was detected for at least one time period in all sites, substantial nitrification occurred only in the hardwood cultivated sites.
   • Tropical hardwood is the usual material for piers and jetties and its use for such a scheme would be against the council's environmental charter.
   • Resident species that we expected to forage preferentially on either longleaf pines or hardwoods during the breeding season continued to do so during the winter.
   • The Embera Indians produce basketry of very high quality, as well as wood carvings in tropical hardwoods.
   • ‘The larger feed wheels work better in crooked trees, especially hardwood, and the maintenance costs are lower,’ he explains.
   • The mushroom business has proven a perfect complement to her tree nursery, which contains a collection of native hardwoods such as oak, ash and holly.
   • Its highest peak scrapes 8,749 feet into the Chihuahuan Desert sky and snags 21 inches of rain a year, enough to nourish these unlikely forests of firs and hardwoods.

2(in gardening) mature growth on shrubs and other plants from which cuttings may be taken.