hardwood
(noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hardwood (countable and uncountable, plural hardwoods)
(countable, mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
(countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
(uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
(sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.
hardwood (not comparable)
Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.
Source: Wiktionary
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
