coarse-grained wood.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Wood heavy, rather soft, tough and coarse-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

How much coarse-grained wood a little gypsum covers!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

The basis of the island is a coarse-grained granite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference

Which defects do suggest a coarse-grained structure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Annealing] Reference

Schist is a medium - to coarse-grained foliated rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metamorphic rock] Reference

Gneiss is a coarse-grained metamorphized igneous rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metamorphic rock] Reference

Sorting and pre-concentrating coarse-grained feed material.    From Wordnik.com.  [14.1 Jig screen, hand-jigging] Reference

Heartwood brown color, sapwood lighter shade, coarse-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Seanas: Dry, coarse-grained snow at the bottom of the snow pack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway] Reference

= Wood is coarse-grained when the annual rings are wide or far apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Soils are generally alkaline and range from medium to coarse-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic] Reference

Which annealing faults may be deducted from a coarse-grained structure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Objectives and Contents of the Vocational Training in the Working Techniques “Annealing, Hardening, Tempering”] Reference

"Oh, you are a coarse-grained exception; I speak of the family average,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

The wood is soft and light, coarse-grained, not unlike the "Swiss pine" of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The images changed, revealing a long-distance and coarse-grained depiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genellan- Planetfall]

If the relata are coarse-grained, then they are events of a certain stripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

It is, however, better to have a coarse-grained understanding that none at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”] Reference

Some common mafic igneous rocks include fine-grained basalt and coarse-grained gabbro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Igneous rock] Reference

Wood very variable, usually coarse-grained and heavy, with very pronounced summer-wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Dry screening is applied for dry coarse-grained material and occurs in an inclined screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [13.1 Set of rigid screens] Reference

Heartwood white to brownish; sapwood lighter color; coarse-grained, compact structure, satiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

"He is unpliant, self-sequestered, coarse-grained; beyond all conception easy and phlegmatic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

Where the latter is relatively coarse-grained (sandy gravel) no separate filter may be needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 17] Reference

Some philosophers will object that this is too coarse-grained a conception of states of affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [States of Affairs] Reference

These same peculiarities enable oak to take a better finish than basswood or coarse-grained pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The Cohansey consists of fine - to coarse-grained quartzose sand with foot-thick lenses of gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey] Reference

In common usage, wood is coarse-grained if its annual rings are wide; fine-grained if they are narrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Just to be clear: I think doing these comparisons by states is a coarse-grained exercise in foolishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”] Reference

The photos I've seen are coarse-grained, and the fossil itself seems to have been split into two slabs as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view] Reference

Commercial value: The wood is soft, brittle, and coarse-grained, and is therefore used mainly for coarse lumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Indeed I think that, as a rule, there is more true pluck among the weak than the strong, among the refined than the coarse-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

Commercial value: The wood of the sycamore is coarse-grained and hard to work; used occasionally for inside finishing in buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

So it is that to-day, in many places, vapid and empty-headed women, coarse-grained and vulgar-souled men, lord it over their fellows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories] Reference

The coarse-grained specimen is sandstone, that of medium grain is argillaceous sandstone, and the fine-grained one is calcareous clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference