Definition of wood Wood
/wʊˈd/ - [wud] - wood
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| wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees | ||
| plant material, plant substance material derived from plants | ||
| lumber, timber the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | ||
| beam long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | ||
| chopping block a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split | ||
| spindle a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | ||
| bentwood wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture; "bentwood chairs" | ||
| pine a coniferous tree | ||
| larch any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | ||
| fir any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas | ||
| cedarwood, cedar any cedar of the genus Cedrus | ||
| spruce any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | ||
| hemlock an evergreen tree | ||
| cypress any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones | ||
| redwood the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees | ||
| citronwood, sandarac wood of a citron tree | ||
| kauri white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis | ||
| yellowwood any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | ||
| yew any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves | ||
| lancewood source of most of the lancewood of commerce | ||
| true tulipwood, whitewood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | ||
| zebrawood any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood | ||
| cocoswood, cocuswood, granadilla wood wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | ||
| shittimwood wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | ||
| sabicu wood, sabicu West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value | ||
| bamboo woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture | ||
| tulipwood light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | ||
| balsa wood, balsa forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts | ||
| silver quandong pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree | ||
| obeche large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | ||
| basswood, linden soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | ||
| beefwood tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | ||
| briarwood, brier-wood, brierwood wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | ||
| beechwood, beech any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | ||
| chestnut a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | ||
| oak a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns" | ||
| birch a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment; "my father never spared the birch" | ||
| alder north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | ||
| hazel a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | ||
| olive a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation | ||
| ash any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus | ||
| ironwood exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees | ||
| walnut nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | ||
| hickory American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | ||
| pecan smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | ||
| pyinma relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous | ||
| gumwood, gum wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | ||
| eucalyptus a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | ||
| tupelo a town in northeast Mississippi | ||
| poon any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood | ||
| red lauan valuable Philippine timber tree | ||
| elmwood, elm any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees | ||
| brazilwood tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | ||
| locust migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae | ||
| logwood spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | ||
| rosewood any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black | ||
| kingwood Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | ||
| granadilla wood dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets | ||
| blackwood any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | ||
| panama redwood, quira hard heavy red wood of a quira tree | ||
| ruby wood, red sandalwood hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork | ||
| black locust large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions | ||
| cherry a red fruit with a single hard stone | ||
| fruitwood wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | ||
| lemonwood South African evergreen having hard tough wood | ||
| incense wood fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium | ||
| mahogany any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish | ||
| satinwood East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood; | ||
| orangewood fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork | ||
| citronwood wood of a citron tree | ||
| guaiac wood, guaiacum wood heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes | ||
| guaiac, lignum vitae, guaiacum small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin | ||
| poplar any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins | ||
| sandalwood close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | ||
| turkish boxwood, boxwood very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | ||
| maple any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone | ||
| sumac a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | ||
| ebony tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork | ||
| lacewood, sycamore thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore | ||
| teakwood, teak tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | ||
| dogwood a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | ||
| sapwood newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | ||
| duramen, heartwood the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | ||
| burl a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | ||
| brushwood the wood from bushes or small branches; "they built a fire of brushwood" | ||
| cabinet wood moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork; "teak and other heavy cabinet wood" | ||
| driftwood wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | ||
| lignin a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants | ||
| log measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water | ||
| matchwood fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood" | ||
| splinters, matchwood fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood" | ||
| sawdust fine particles of wood made by sawing wood | ||
| wicker work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | ||
| dyewood any wood from which dye is obtained | ||
| hardwood the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | ||
| softwood, deal wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | ||
| raw wood wood that is not finished or painted | ||
| wood - a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; "metal woods are now standard" | ||
| golf-club, golf club, club golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | ||
| brassie (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon | ||
| number one wood, driver a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | ||
| metal wood golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head | ||
| wood - United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) | ||
| Grant Wood | ||
| wood - English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) | ||
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood | ||
| wood - English conductor (1869-1944) | ||
| Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood | ||
| wood - United States film actress (1938-1981) | ||
| Natalie Wood | ||
| wood - the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | ||
| forest, woods | ||
| botany, flora, vegetation the branch of biology that studies plants | ||
| bosk a small wooded area | ||
| grove garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | ||
| jungle an impenetrable equatorial forest | ||
| rain forest, rainforest a forest with heavy annual rainfall | ||
| underbrush, undergrowth, underwood the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | ||
| tree English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) | ||
| old growth, virgin forest forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity | ||
| wood - any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | ||
| woodwind, woodwind instrument | ||
| wind instrument, wind a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath | ||
| beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed | ||
| finger hole a hole for inserting a finger | ||
| transverse flute, flute a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown | ||
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Wiktionary 
- wood (Noun)
The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. - wood (Noun)
The wood of a particular species of tree. - wood (Noun)
A forested or wooded area. - wood (Noun)
Firewood. - wood (Noun)
A woodwind instrument. - wood (Noun)
An erection. - wood (Noun)
A peckerwood. - wood (Verb)
To cover or plant with trees. - wood (Verb)
To take or get a supply of wood. - wood (Adjective)
Made of wood. - wood (Adjective)
Mad, insane, crazed.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- wood (a.)
Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. - wood (v. i.)
To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. - wood (n.)
A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. - wood (n.)
The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. - wood (n.)
The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. - wood (n.)
Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. - wood (v. t.)
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive. - wood (v. i.)
To take or get a supply of wood.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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An area where trees grow, where there are, no streets, no buildings, no agriculture beyond growing trees. -
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A dense growth of trees more extensive than a grove and smaller than a forest. -
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The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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A gun is said to wood when it takes the port-sills or port-sides, or the trucks the water-ways.--To wood. When wooding-parties are sent out to cut or procure wood for a ship.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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The most useful timbers in the United States are: the hickory, which is very tough and inflexible; white oak, tough and pliable; white ash, tough and elastic; black walnut, hard and fine-grained; white poplar, soft, light, fine-grained wood; white pine and other pines, for building; cypress, soft, light, straight-grained, and grows to a large size; dogwood, hard and fine-grained. The timber growing in the centre of a forest is best.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take in any business. To look over the wood; to ascend the pulpit, to preach: I shall look over the wood at St. James's on Sunday next. To look through the wood; to stand in the pillory. Up to the arms in wood; in the pillory.
Wikipedia 
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Wood is the main substance in trees. Wood is used for construction of buildings or furniture, and also for art. It is also used for making fires and heating. Paper is made from wood by a chemical reaction.
Wood is very easy to cut, but it is also very strong. A lumberjack is a person who cuts down trees. After a tree falls, the wood in it can be cut into long, straight pieces called lumber. Lumber can then be used to make posts, or put together with nails, screws, or even glue to make wooden frames for other shapes.
Wood comes in many different kinds. Oak and maple are widely-used types of wood.
For a long time and even today, many buildings, mostly houses, have been made of wood. To build a house with wood, lumber is put together into frames that are the shape of each wall, floor, and roof of the house. Then the frames are placed into the shape of a house. Then the frames can be covered to make solid walls. Sometimes the walls are made of more wood.
When the outside of a house or building is covered in wood, the wooden pieces are usually flat and stacked. These pieces are called shingles. Wood is also sometimes used in other parts of the house, like doors and staircases. Wood is also used to make fences.
People also make much furniture with wood, like chairs, dressers, tables, and desks.
When someone builds something with wood, they usually paint it. Paint protects and beautifies the wood. Some people like the look of wood, so they put clear paint called "varnish" on it.
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