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means Timber from slow-growing broadleaf (deciduous) trees like oak, maple, or walnut — denser and tougher than softwood, which comes from conifers.

from A plain compound of 'hard' and 'wood,' dating back centuries in English as people sorted timber by how it worked under tools — the dense, slow-grown stuff from broadleaf trees versus the softer, faster-grown wood of conifers. The split is really botanical, not about actual hardness (balsa, oddly, counts as a 'hardwood'), but the name stuck because for flooring, furniture, and tool handles, that density is exactly what you're paying for.