pulpwood
noun
pulp·wood ˈpəlp-ˌwu̇d 
: a wood (as of aspen, hemlock, pine, or spruce) used in making pulp for paper
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Saw logs are found by the river systems, but most of the cutting is done for pulpwood. 
John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022 Even though the rate of rainforest destruction has slowed, environmentalists worry that the demand for pulpwood, which is harvested for the production of paper and viscose, will fuel the clearing of more forestland. NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021 The vast majority was fueled by palm oil and other agriculture such as coffee, but pulpwood plantations have also replaced large sections of rainforest. NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021 The order limits the movement of ash trees for planting and ash tree products such as logs, pulpwood, lumber and firewood from areas that are considered likely to harbor the pest. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021 But after subtracting logging and trucking costs, Mr. McDaniel estimates that low pulpwood prices would have left him with just $3 a ton. Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021 Worldwide, paper recycling already shrinks demand for pulpwood from forests and plantations by 484 million metric tons (MMT) annually. Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020 Located near Seney National Wildlife Refuge, where the pulpwood and logging industry was booming, there was plenty of work to occupy the men at Camp Germfask. Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2020 In 1929, when a timber cruiser who was mapping a giant pulpwood sale on Admiralty Island shot a bear and then was killed by it, the anti-bear rhetoric reached a boiling point. Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 16 June 2020 See More
John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022 Even though the rate of rainforest destruction has slowed, environmentalists worry that the demand for pulpwood, which is harvested for the production of paper and viscose, will fuel the clearing of more forestland. NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021 The vast majority was fueled by palm oil and other agriculture such as coffee, but pulpwood plantations have also replaced large sections of rainforest. NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021 The order limits the movement of ash trees for planting and ash tree products such as logs, pulpwood, lumber and firewood from areas that are considered likely to harbor the pest. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021 But after subtracting logging and trucking costs, Mr. McDaniel estimates that low pulpwood prices would have left him with just $3 a ton. Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021 Worldwide, paper recycling already shrinks demand for pulpwood from forests and plantations by 484 million metric tons (MMT) annually. Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020 Located near Seney National Wildlife Refuge, where the pulpwood and logging industry was booming, there was plenty of work to occupy the men at Camp Germfask. Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2020 In 1929, when a timber cruiser who was mapping a giant pulpwood sale on Admiralty Island shot a bear and then was killed by it, the anti-bear rhetoric reached a boiling point. Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 16 June 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
- by the book
- by the by
- by the bye
- by the count of
- by the day
- by the hand
- by the head
- by the heels
- by the name of
- by the numbers
- by the rules
- by the same token
- by the score
- by the seat of one's pants
- by the skin of one's teeth
- by the sweat of one's brow
- by the time
- by the way
- by the wayside
- by trade
- by turns
- by virtue of
- by ware
- by way of
- by way of explanation