alburnum

From Latin alburnum, from albus (“white”), since it is often paler in color than the heartwood.

alburnum (usually uncountable, plural alburnums)

1. sapwood; the soft, newer wood in the trunk of a tree found between the bark and the hardened heartwood.

• laburnum

From albus (“white”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈbur.num/, [aɫˈbʊr.nũ]

alburnum n (genitive alburnī); second declension

1. alburnum; sapwood

Second declension.

• English: alburnum
• Portuguese: alburno, borne

• alburnum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alburnum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• alburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “alburnum” on page 93/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)