duramen

Questions about duramen

What is another word for duramen?

It depends which duramen you mean. In the sense “the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood”, the synonyms are heartwood. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of duramen?

WordNet records no antonym for duramen. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for duramen come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of duramen

• Full entry for duramenAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for duramenWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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