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NALT Full

Preferred term

close-grained wood

Type

Topic

Definition

Wood with narrow, inconspicuous annual rings. The term is sometimes used to designate wood having small and closely spaced pores, but in this sense the term "fine textured" is more often used.
Source: Forest Products Laboratory. 1999. Wood handbook—Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL–GTR–113. Madison, WI: U.S.D.A, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 463 p.
Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

grain and figure

Related concepts

Synonyms

fine-grained wood

In other languages

madera de grano cerrado

Spanish

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/314664

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