Associations to the word «Softwood»
Noun
Wiktionary
SOFTWOOD, noun. (countable) (mostly in) (botany) The wood from any conifer (or from Ginkgo), without regarding how soft this wood is.
SOFTWOOD, noun. (countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers.
SOFTWOOD, noun. (countable) (forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding
SOFTWOOD, noun. (uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
Dictionary definition
SOFTWOOD, noun. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.