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Definition of Summerwood
1. Noun. The wood in a tree's growth ring formed later in the growing season, when growth is less rapid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Summerwood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summerwood
Literary usage of Summerwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Preservation of Structural Timber by Howard Frederick Weiss (1916)
"The Effect of summerwood and Springwood upon Injection.— All of the commercially
important American woods grow by adding a successive layer of wood with ..."
2. The Preservation of Structural Timber by Howard Frederick Weiss (1914)
"The Effect of summerwood and Springwood upon Injection.— All of the commercially
important American woods grow by adding a successive layer of wood with ..."
3. Wooden Box and Crate Construction by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (1921)
"SPRINGWOOD AND summerwood The springwood is that part of the annual ring which
is first formed each year. The wood is usually lighter in weight and softer ..."
4. Lumber and Its Uses by Royal Shaw Kellogg (1919)
"beech, etc., belong; to the group where spring-wood and summerwood are not easily
distinguishable. summerwood in Different Species The same proportion of ..."
5. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"In certain woods, the change from springwood to summerwood is distinctly marked,
so that the proportion of summerwood in an annual ring or in a ..."
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