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What does softwood mean?

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Noun
  1. (botany) The wood from any conifer (or from Ginkgo), without regarding how soft this wood is.
  2. (countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers.
  3. (countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields the preceding
  4. (uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
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Blast II is a cluster of elongated diamond shapes in two colors of painted softwood that fan out irregularly from a point on the wall.
The softwood is processed by single grip processors, which also are owned by other contractors.
The shell consists of two double layers of 40 x 20 mm softwood laths at 400 mm centres pin-jointed together with more than 1000 bolts.
The easiest way to propagate lavender is to take softwood cuttings in the Spring.
These cuttings are then treated in the same way as softwood cuttings and can be taken from mid-summer to early autumn.
Floodplains supported softwood forests and bountiful warm-season riparian food resources such as fish and mussels.

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