applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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beefwood | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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(noun) any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork | - |
(noun) tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: Grevillea striata |
(noun) tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus |
(noun) any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork | - |
bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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(noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
(noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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(noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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(noun) 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 | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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(noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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(noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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camwood | (noun) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | Synonyms: African sandalwood, Baphia nitida |
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candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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cedarwood | (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedar |
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chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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(noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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(noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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(noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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ironwood | (noun) a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape | Synonyms: iron-tree, iron tree, ironwood tree |
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(noun) medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America | Synonyms: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana |
(noun) handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties | Synonyms: ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut |
(noun) exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees | - |
joewood | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis |
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kingwood | (noun) Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | Synonyms: Dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree |
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(noun) handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork | - |
lacewood | (noun) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree | Synonyms: sycamore |
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lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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(noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
laurelwood | (noun) tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree |
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leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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(noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
lemonwood | (noun) South African evergreen having hard tough wood | Synonyms: lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis |
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(noun) hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods | - |
lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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logwood | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree |
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(noun) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye | - |
marblewood | (noun) large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood | Synonyms: Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marble-wood |
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(noun) hard marbled wood | Synonyms: marble-wood |
matchwood | (noun) fragments of wood | - |
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(noun) wood suitable for making matchsticks | - |
(noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: splinters |
moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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(noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
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(noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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orangewood | (noun) fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork | - |
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peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
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peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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pedwood | (noun) European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers | Synonyms: blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, red dogwood |
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pepperwood | (noun) Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood | Synonyms: California bay tree, California laurel, California olive, mountain laurel, Oregon myrtle, sassafras laurel, spice tree, Umbellularia californica |
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plywood | (noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood | Synonyms: plyboard |
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possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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princewood | (noun) tropical American timber tree | Synonyms: Cordia gerascanthus, Spanish elm |
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(noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, salmwood, Spanish elm |
pulpwood | (noun) softwood used to make paper | - |
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rabbitwood | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes | Synonyms: buffalo nut, Pyrularia pubera |
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redwood | (noun) the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees | - |
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(noun) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: sequoia |
(noun) wood of either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: sequoia |
ribbonwood | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark |
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(noun) deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | Synonyms: Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree |
rosewood | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: rosewood tree |
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(noun) hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork | - |
salmwood | (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, princewood, Spanish elm |
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sandalwood | (noun) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | - |
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sapwood | (noun) newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | - |
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satinwood | (noun) East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood | Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree |
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(noun) West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood | Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum |
(noun) hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools | - |
shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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(noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
(noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
silkwood | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood |
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snakewood | (noun) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents | Synonyms: Rauwolfia serpentina |
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softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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tarwood | (noun) New Zealand shrub | Synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood |
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(noun) New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes | Synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood |
teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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tulipwood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar |
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(noun) the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees | - |
twistwood | (noun) vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black | Synonyms: twist wood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree |
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underwood | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth |
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whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
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wood | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: woodwind, woodwind instrument |
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(noun) a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head | - |
(noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: forest, woods |
(noun) the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees | - |
woodbine | (noun) European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers | Synonyms: Lonicera periclymenum |
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(noun) common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit | Synonyms: American ivy, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper |
woodborer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: borer |
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woodcarver | (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: carver |
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woodcarving | (noun) a carving created by carving wood | - |
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woodchuck | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: groundhog, Marmota monax |
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woodcock | (noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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(noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
woodcreeper | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer |
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