SOFTWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does softwood mean? 

• SOFTWOOD (noun)
  The noun SOFTWOOD has 1 sense:

1. wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

  Familiarity information: SOFTWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOFTWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

deal; softwood

Hypernyms ("softwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "softwood"):

pulpwood (softwood used to make paper)

 Context examples 

It has revealed that there are macrofibril structures with a diameter exceeding 10 nanometres in both softwood and hardwood species, and confirmed they are common across all trees studied.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)