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  1. 2. a small area of trees that can be used as fuel or to provide wood for building things.
  2. 6. the wood from a broadleaved tree (such as oak, ash, or beech) as distinguished from that of conifers.
  3. 8. relating to or denoting a plant that retains green leaves throughout the year.
  4. 10. a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.
  5. 11. become or cause to become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or dampness.
  6. 12. a thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to a coarser wood or other material.
  7. 14. a wood (as of aspen, hemlock, pine, or spruce) used in making pulp for paper.
  8. 15. a young plant, especially one raised from seed and not from a cutting.
  9. 18. a tree that bears cones and needle-like or scale-like leaves that are typically evergreen.
  10. 19. a woody plant which is smaller than a tree and has several main stems arising at or near the ground.
  11. 20. another term for tree ring.
  12. 21. a cellular plant tissue from which phloem, xylem, or cork grows by division, resulting (in woody plants) in secondary thickening.
  13. 23. a unit of volume for timber equal to 144 cubic inches, notionally twelve inches by twelve inches by one inch.
  14. 24. a type of strong thin wooden board consisting of two or more layers glued and pressed together with the direction of the grain alternating, and usually sold in sheets of four by eight feet.
  15. 26. an area of land covered by forests.
  16. 27. the growing and cultivation of trees.
  17. 28. the dense inner part of a tree trunk, yielding the hardest timber.
  18. 29. move in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
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  1. 1. the wood from a conifer (such as pine, fir, or spruce) as distinguished from that of broadleaved trees.
  2. 3. land covered with forest suitable or managed for timber.
  3. 4. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves.
  4. 5. the process, fact, or amount of shrinking.
  5. 6. the ability of a material to resist deformation
  6. 7. plant vascular tissue that conveys water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant and also provides physical support
  7. 9. sharply defined; easy to perceive or understand.
  8. 13. is pipeline through which food is passed to the rest of the tree.
  9. 16. (of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually.
  10. 17. freedom from discomfort, worry, or anxiety
  11. 19. the soft outer layers of recently formed wood between the heartwood and the bark, containing the functioning vascular tissue.
  12. 22. the cultivation of trees and shrubs.
  13. 25. a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.