Softwood
Wood from coniferous (gymnosperm) trees, named as a timber class rather than by hardness or species.
How it connects
Softwood is a kind of Wood.
Softwood includes Cedar, Cypress, Douglas fir, Fir, Hemlock, Larch, Pine, Redwood and Spruce.
Softwood is filed under Wood.
Other kinds of Wood: Engineered wood, Hardwood and Wood flour.
In other taxonomies
- softwoodWikidata, Q252108nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Record
- Seen in the wild
- soft wood
- Broader
- Wood
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); USDA Wood Handbook (2021), chapter 2, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/softwoodKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- broaderCedarincoming
- broaderCypressincoming
- broaderDouglas firincoming
- broaderFirincoming
- broaderHemlockincoming
- broaderLarchincoming
- broaderPineincoming
- broaderRedwoodincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderWoodoutgoing
- narrowerCedaroutgoing
- narrowerCypressoutgoing
- narrowerDouglas firoutgoing
- narrowerFiroutgoing
- narrowerHemlockoutgoing
- narrowerLarchoutgoing
- narrowerPineoutgoing
- narrowerRedwoodoutgoing
- narrowerSpruceoutgoing
- broaderSpruceincoming
- narrowerWoodincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Woodoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Cedaroutgoing
- descendant (derived)Cypressoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Douglas firoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Firoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Hemlockoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Larchoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Pineoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Redwoodoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Spruceoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Western red cedaroutgoing
- descendant (derived)European larchoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Eastern white pineoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Scots pineoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Norway spruceoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Engineered woodoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Hardwoodoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Wood flouroutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Q252108 | softwood | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Softwood | softwood via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download | none |