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Record 1 1992-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Wood
OBS

Used for door sides and backs.

OBS

Gumwood ... is recognized as a wood of great beauty with a wide range of usefulness .... Fine furniture and trim are made from gumwood. It is one of our most decorative woods. One of its unusual features is that no two long boards produce the same figure in the wood .... Gumwood is plain sawed, quarter sawed, or veneered.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de bois
DEF

Contreplaqué pour côtés et dos de portes fait à partir de Copalme d'Amérique.

OBS

Le terme anglais "gum tree" peut s'appliquer à plusieurs types d'arbre dont l'Eucalyptus et le Liquidambar styracifère ou Copalme d'Amérique (sweet gum).

Spanish

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