In the rush to utilize the pines, firs and redwoods, the dense hardwoods were looked on with contempt.

Logged in the early to mid-1900s, the forest has recovered with dense hardwoods and scattered pines, most of which have now celebrated their 60th birthday.

Moreover, the most valuable dense hardwoods will not float.

Luthiers making their own planes typically make them from offcuts of dense tropical hardwoods.

Less dense, airy woods are superior because they shrink and expand in lower proportions than dense hardwoods like elm, maple, oak, and beech.

Cocuswood is a very dense tropical hardwood with excellent tone quality.

It forms a dense hardwood valued for its termite resistance, used for railway sleepers, in construction and for furniture making.

Ms. Shamaris estimated that each of the bed's roughly eight-foot-long by eight-inch-wide slabs of ironwood, a dense hardwood, weighed about 200 pounds.

The seat is made from the dense hardwood called Lignum vitae.

Shuttles were constructed from a dense heavy hardwood with metal tips.