SOFTWOOD

softwood, deal

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

softwood (countable and uncountable, plural softwoods)

(countable, mostly, botany) The wood from any conifer (or from Ginkgo), without regard to how soft this wood is.

(countable, in more general use) Wood of this kind but limited to those that are commercial timbers.

(countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields this wood.

(uncountable) Any commercial timber.

Source: Wiktionary



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CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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