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
The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today.
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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.
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The wood is soft, light, weak, close-grained and decays readily in contact with heat and moisture.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
Lana, l�′na, n. the tough, close-grained wood of a Guiana tree.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.