Usually means: Wood from deciduous, broad-leaved trees.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardwood: Merriam-Webster
  2. hardwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hardwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hardwood: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hardwood: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hardwood, hardwood: Wordnik
  7. hardwood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hardwood: Wiktionary
  9. hardwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hardwood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hardwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hardwood: Dictionary.com
  13. hardwood: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hardwood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hardwood (disambiguation), Hardwood (film), Hardwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. hardwood: Rhymezone
  17. HARDWOOD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. hardwood: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hardwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hardwood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. hardwood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardwood: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardwood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardwood: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Furnishings Guide (No longer online)
  3. Hardwood: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

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noun:  (countable, mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
noun:  (countable) (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
noun:  (countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
noun:  (uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
noun:  (sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.
adjective:  (of a floor) Made of interlocking hardwood boards.

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