Designating wood and trees, especially tropical hardwood species, in which pores of similar size are scattered fairly evenly across the early wood and latewood when viewed in transverse section.
Origin
Late 19th century.
Definition of diffuse-porous in US English:
diffuse-porous
adjective
Designating wood and trees, especially tropical hardwood species, in which pores of similar size are scattered fairly evenly across the early wood and latewood when viewed in transverse section.