Usually means: Wood from conifers, less dense.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. softwood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. softwood: Merriam-Webster
  3. softwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. softwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. softwood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. softwood: Vocabulary.com
  7. Softwood, softwood: Wordnik
  8. softwood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. softwood: Wiktionary
  10. softwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. softwood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. softwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. softwood: Dictionary.com
  14. Softwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. softwood: Rhymezone
  16. softwood: FreeDictionary.org
  17. softwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. softwood: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. softwood: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. Paper Making (No longer online)
  3. Softwood: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly botany) The wood from any gymnosperm, without regard to how soft this wood is.
noun:  (countable, in more general use) Wood of this kind, but limited to those that are commercial timbers.
noun:  (countable, forestry) The tree or tree species that yields this wood.
noun:  (uncountable) Any commercial timber.

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