close-grained
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It is based largely on a close-grained analysis of masses of sea surface and air temperature data collected over the century.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
In twelve books she has tried both to give a close-grained structure of regional manners and to trace the doings of the English merchant class from its ferment under Cromwell to its troubles under Attlee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wood firm, close-grained and very unwedgeable, on account of the oblique direction and crossing of its fibres.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The wood is hard, heavy, strong, very close-grained, brown to red in color.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
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