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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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The easiest way to propagate lavender is to take softwood cuttings in the Spring.
In the Sikhote Alin, a forested range north of Vladivostok, I found mixed hard and softwood, rather small timber.
These cuttings are then treated in the same way as softwood cuttings and can be taken from mid-summer to early autumn.
While blueberries are propagated commercially by tissue culture, they can be propagated by hardwood or softwood cuttings.
The Kumaun and Garhwal hills of present-day Uttar Pradesh contain the best stands of softwood in the subcontinent.
All types of lumber, both hardwood and softwood, are sorted by quality during the milling process.

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