(n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Melacacidin, known to be the main constituent of these flavan derivatives in the heartwood, was isolated and its sensitizing capacity in guinea pigs determined.
(2) beta-Sitosterol, beta-sitosterol-beta-D-glucopyranoside and a butyrolactone lignan disaccharide, ramontoside, were isolated from the heartwood of Flacourtia ramontchi.
(3) Five isoflavonoids, including the new isoflavone quinone, 5-hydroxybowdichione [2], were isolated from the heartwood of Dalbergia candenatensis through bioactivity-directed fractionation.
(4) The major components of untreated wood--cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin--have not been implicated as toxicants, but extractive substances, especially in heartwood, can be toxic.
(5) heartwood had antibacterial activity against cariogenic bacteria, the mutans Streptococci.
(6) 3,3',4,5'-Tetrahydroxystilbene (I) and 3,3',4,5'-tetrahydroxybibenzyl (II), isolated from the heartwood of Cassia garrettiana Craib (Leguminosae), showed inhibitory effects on antigen-induced histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells in vitro.
(7) The heartwood of A. auriculiformis contains a typical mixture of analogues consisting of three isomeric flavan-3,4-diols, a dihydroflavonol, flavanone, flavonol and chalcone based on the 4',7,8-trihydroxyl pattern.
(8) The root heartwood of Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen (Leguminosae) is a Chinese medicinal drug (Japanese name koshinko) used for a stagnant blood syndrome (stagnation of disordered blood; Japanese, oketsu).
(9) Alcoholic extracts of the heartwood of Liriodendron tulipifera have demonstrated antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Candida albicans, and Aspergillus niger.
(10) It was concluded that the aqueous extract of heartwood is laminogenic to horses, but the active ingredient is not juglone.
(11) An aqueous extract of the heartwood of black walnut (Juglans nigra) was given via stomach tube to 10 horses.
(12) A new taxane diterpene and three known taxane diterpenes were isolated from the heartwood of Taxus mairei grown in Fujian province of China and identified as 1-dehydroxy-baccatin VI, baccatin VI, 1-dehydroxybaccatin IV, and taxinne J on the basis of spectral data.
(13) Wattle bark and heartwood ;tannins' consist of the analogues of closely related prototypes with common origins in the vascular tissues of the bark.
(14) An aqueous extract was made from black walnut (Juglans nigra) heartwood obtained in the fall of the year.
(15) The compounds 1-6 were isolated from the heartwood of Plumeria rubra, following bioactivity-directed fractionation.
(16) The distributions of flavonoid, carbohydrate, amino acid and imino acid components in the leaves, twig bark, stem bark, root bark and heartwoods of the black-wattle tree were compared by paper chromatography after their isolation from specific portions of the tree.
Sandalwood
Definition:
(n.) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
(n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
(n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Example Sentences:
(1) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
(2) The Roldugin-Sandalwood schemes were organised by the Swiss lawyers Dietrich, Baumgartner & Partner , whose offices are in the heart of Zurich’s banking district.
(3) Further loans made to media production and TV companies were reassigned to Sandalwood.
(4) Between 2009 and 2011 it extended $800m in credit lines to Sandalwood Continental.
(5) But the Panama Papers showed $2bn flowing from Russian state banks to offshore companies linked to Roldugin, including a firm in the British Virgin Islands called Sandalwood Continental Ltd.
(6) In December 2010, the RCB lent 5bn roubles (then about £100m) offshore to Sandalwood at 4% interest.
(7) They have largely meaningless names – Sonnette Overseas, International Media Overseas, Sunbarn, Raytar, Sandalwood Continental Ltd .
(8) Sandalwood promptly passed it on to another offshore entity with obscure ownership, Eurofert Trading Ltd, as a loan at 5%.
(9) Goldblatt said that the author's satirical novel Jiuguo (The Republic of Wine) "may be the most technically innovative and sophisticated novel from China I've read", while his Shengsi pilao (Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out) is "a brilliant extended fable", and Tanxiangxing (Sandalwood Death) "is, as the author contends, musical in its beauty".
(10) As soon as the cash came in from RCB, Sandalwood lent it on to a Cyprus-registered entity, Horwich Trading, at a hefty 7.8% interest.
(11) In one example from July 2010, Sandalwood agreed to buy shares through Starcourt Worldwide Ltd, an offshore company based in Belize.
(12) The cash came from Sandalwood, the offshore company linked to Putin’s other close friend, Roldugin.
(13) He had practiced the incense ceremony for about 15 years, and had burnt several incenses and sandalwood.
(14) The files show how the simple movement of the money made Sandalwood a profit of $4m.
(15) It then paid Sandalwood nearly $800,000 in “compensation”.
(16) The GC-fingerprint spectra of essential oils in imported sandalwood are established by the new technique of GC-relative retention value fingerprint spectrum (GC-FPS).
(17) The vast trade in shark fins and turtles will also come under attack, as will the large-scale felling of tropical rosewood and sandalwood, as well as less well-known issues such as Indonesia's huge exports of frogs' legs, and the trade in cheetahs and python skins.