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sapwood
[ sap-wood ]
sapwood
/ ˈsæpˌwʊd /
noun
- the soft wood, just beneath the bark in tree trunks, that consists of living tissue Compare heartwood
sapwood
/ săp′wd′ /
- The younger layers of new wood produced by the interior side of the vascular cambium within a tree trunk. Sapwood is active in the conduction of water and is usually lighter in color than heartwood.
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Diseases of the sapwood cut off the water supply, which is pumped upward from the roots.
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Upon exposure by a wound, the sapwood just underneath the bark dies, dries out, and checks.
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A feller that kin kick like that didn't orter be called Sapwood nor Saphead nor Sapanything.
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It is a bright red-brown with a thin outer edge of paler sapwood.
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This external evidence should be supplemented by cutting down to the sapwood.
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