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late·wood

 (lăt′wo͝od′)
n.
Wood in a growth ring of a tree that is produced late in the growing season and is harder and less porous than earlywood. Also called summerwood.
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latewood

(ˈleɪtˌwʊd)
n
(Botany) wood that is formed late in a tree's growing season and which forms the darker part of the annual ring of growth
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Owing to its spot size, the ASD probe was able to capture more sample variability, that is, variation in earlywood and latewood components of individual rings, while it was not possible to achieve the same coverage when collecting two spectra using the Foss probe.
Boreal temperature variability inferred from maximum latewood density and tree-ring width data, Wrangell Mountain region, Alaska.
For example, these two species have distinct differences with respect to the transition from earlywood to latewood with Douglas-fir having an abrupt transition and white fir having a gradual transition.
Analyzing more minutely it is noticed that the relative proportion of latewood per unit length in the specimens used is greater in the tangential plane than in the radial plane, which help understand, among other factors, the highest values of the first mentioned plan.