Sapwood

Definition: Sapwood

Sapwood

Noun

1. Newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction.

Date "sapwood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	The outer layers of xylem which, in the growing tree, contain living parenchymatic cells with stored food reserves. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	The usually lighter, more porous and younger wood, just beneath the bark. Source: European Union. (references)
	The outer layers of a stem which in a live tree are composed of living cells and conduct water up the tree. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sapwood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sapwood" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

Expressions using "sapwood": double sapwood ♦ included sapwood ♦ internal sapwood ♦ sapwood dating. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "sapwood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		多汁木材. (various references)

Danish		splintved (alburnum), splint (alburnum, scab, shell, sliver, spill, splinter), messing (brass). (various references)

Dutch		spinthout (alburnum), spint (ablet, core wood, crown wood, immature wood, juvenile core, juvenile wood, pith wood, red spider). (various references)

Finnish		pintapuu (alburnum), mantopuu (alburnum), manto (alburnum). (various references)

French		bois d'aubier, aubier. (various references)

German		Splint (alburnum, cotter, cotter pin, joining pin, pin bolt, splint, splint pin, split cotter pin, split pin, spring cotter). (various references)

Greek		σομφόν ξύλον, υπό τον χυμόν ξύλον. (various references)

Italian		alburno (alburnum). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		白身 (white meat, white of egg, white-fleshed fish for sushi and sashimi), 白太 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しろみ (white meat, white of egg, white-fleshed fish for sushi and sashimi), しらた. (various references)

Pig Latin		apwoodsay.(various references)

Portuguese		branco da madeira, borne (alburnum, battery terminal, post, terminal), alburno (alburnum, bleak, sap-wood). (various references)

Russian		заболонь (alburnum, sap, sap-wood). (various references)

Spanish		albura (alburnum, whiteness). (various references)

Swedish		splintved (alburnum, sappy-wood). (various references)

Ukranian		заболонь (white). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adeps, adipe, adipem, adipemque, adipes, adipibus, adipum, carne, carnem, carnes, carnesque, carni, carnibus, carnis, carnium, caro. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sapwood": sapwoods. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sapwood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cawood, sapod, Sarwono, scaphoid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-o-o-p-s-w"
	-2 letters: apods, dopas, poods, spado, swoop, woads, woods, woops.
	-3 letters: ados, apod, daps, daws, dopa, dows, oops, pads, paws, pods, pood, pows, soap, soda, swap, swop, wads, waps, wasp, woad, wood, woos, wops.
	-4 letters: ado, ads, asp, dap, daw, dos, dow, ods, ops, pad, pas, paw, pod, pow, sad, sap, saw, sod, sop, sow, spa, wad, wap, was, woo, wop, wos.
	-5 letters: ad, as, aw, do, od, op, os, ow, pa, so, wo.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-o-o-p-s-w"
	+1 letter: sapwoods.
	+3 letters: codswallop.
	+4 letters: codswallops.
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