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Definition of: duramen
(d
·rā′min, dy-) noun Bot.
The heartwood of an exogenous stem or tree trunk; the darker central portion of the wood, comprised of dead tissue, surrounded by the alburnum. See illustration under EXOGEN. [<L, a ligenous vine branch]
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