In article , "Chas Hurst" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Chas Hurst"
wrote:

Well, there are evergreen angisperms, azalea, rhododendron, holly, are
they
hard or soft wood?

Being angiosperms, they're hardwoods.

Say you, but the original article also included deciduous in the definition.
The above are not deciduous.

But, being angiosperms, they're hardwoods.

And there are deciduous gymnosperms, larch? are they hard or soft wood?

Being gymnosperms, they're softwoods.

Again, the original article included evergreen in it's definition of
softwood, yet there are gymnosperms that are deciduous.

Being gymnosperms, they're softwoods, whether they're deciduous or not.

An ambiguous definition isn't one.

The terms "hardwood" and "softwood" are exactly synonymous with "angiosperm"
and "gymnosperm" respectively.

The overwhelming majority of gymnosperms are evergreen, and the overwhelming
majority of temperate-zone angiosperms are deciduous.

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