Associations to the word «Heartwood»
Wiktionary
HEARTWOOD, noun. The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood
Dictionary definition
HEARTWOOD, noun. The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.