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How to pronounce hardwood in English?

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Type of wood

Examples of hardwood

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This marks just the second-ever meeting between these two teams on the hardwood.
From the thenewstribune.com
Granite steps lead into a vestibule and 13-by-7-foot foyer with hardwood floors.
From the bostonherald.com
Next to the den is a full bath with a ceramic tile shower and hardwood flooring.
From the washingtontimes.com
The house features hardwood floors, granite countertops and ample storage space.
From the tennessean.com
For me, Tom Hardy makes Mark Wahlberg look like an unpolished piece of hardwood.
From the guardian.co.uk
It features wood-trimmed doorways and windows and both hardwood and tile floors.
From the sfgate.com
Natural materials like hardwood and ceramic give a visual look that is stunning.
From the theepochtimes.com
The living area has hardwood floors and windows with blinds, plus a ceiling fan.
From the washingtontimes.com
I pulled him out of the bed by his feet and dragged him onto the hardwood floor.
From the ocregister.com
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  • The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
  • Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees (more strictly speaking non-monocot angiosperm trees). It may also be used for those trees themselves: these are usually broad-leaved; in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen.
  • Hardwood is a 2004 short documentary film about Canadian director Hubert Davis' relationship to his father, former Harlem Globetrotters member Mel Davis. ...
  • (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness; (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness; The tree or tree species that yields the preceding; A joint ...
  • (Hardwoods) Usually broad-leaved and deciduous trees.
  • (HARDWOODS (DECIDUOUS TREES)) Trees with broad, flat leaves as opposed to coniferous or needled trees. Wood hardness varies among the hardwood species, and some are actually softer than some softwoods.
  • (Hardwoods) Broadleaf (usually deciduous) trees. Examples include maple, hickory, oak, alder, ash, elm, birch, etc.
  • (Hardwoods) Woods containing a limited amount of resin such as hickory, oak, cherry , apple, beech, and maple, that are burned to produce smoke for flavoring smoked meat products.
  • (hardwoods) a general term encompassing broadleaf, deciduous trees.