wood [ wud] n.树林，森林；木头
wood [wud] n. 木头, 木材, 树木
布雷顿森林体系 Bretton Woods system
Wood-button 木纽
Wood components 木制配件
Abnormal wood 异常（木）材
Adult wood 成年材
Bent wood （弯）曲木
Branch wood 枝条材
Broad leaf wood 阔叶材，硬材
compressed wood 压缩木
curved laminated wood 弯曲层积材
Delta wood 多层木
Densified wood 强化木材
Density of wood 木材密度
Diffuse porous wood 散孔材
Fine wood board 纤维板
Huanghauli wood 黄花梨木
Imitation wood 仿制材
Impregnated wood （合成树脂）浸渍木
Install wood strip flooring 安装地板条
Laminated wood 层积材，多层胶合木
Liquid cutting of wood 木材水力切割
adhesion test instrument for the wood coating 木材涂层附着力测定仪
Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Explosions in Wood Processing and Woodworking Facilities
森林防火防爆处理和林木工作设备标准
Standard for Fire Retardant Impregnated Wood and Fire Retardant Coatings for Building Materials
建筑材料阻火型木材和涂料的消防标准
Wood Blinds 木帘
Wood Door 木门
Wood Flooring 木地板
Wood-button 木纽
Wood components 木制配件
cut of the woods 脱离危险期
Chinese wood oil 桐油
木材科学与技术 Wood Science and Technology
合成木材 Synthetic Wood
The weird cries are from the woods.
这怪叫声是从树林里传过来的。
a piece of toast 一片烤面包
a piece of cake 一块蛋糕
a piece of wood 一块木头
a piece of luck 一件幸运的事
a piece of cloth 一块布
a piece of gum 一片口香糖
The wild animals roared in the woods.
那头野兽在丛林里大吼大叫。
He lives in a cabin in the woods.
他住在树林中的小屋里。
The old man lived in a lodge in the woods.
这老人住在树林里的一间小屋里。
They kept dumping their garbage in the woods until the local police came.
警察到来之前， 他们一直在往树林里倒拉圾。
The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him.
迷路的人大声叫喊，希望树林里有人能听到。
There are abundant supplies of wood for fires in the forest.
森林里有充裕的薪柴可用。
chop wood 劈柴
Columns are usually made of stone, wood or metal, and used as supports or ornaments to a building.
柱子通常由石头、木材或者金属制成，用来支撑或者装饰建筑物。
How can I fasten these pieces of wood together?
我该怎样把这些木板捆在一起？
He threw the ball deep into the woods and the dog chased after it quickly.
他把球远远地扔进了树林，小狗飞快地跑去追球。
The rabbit ran to the woods and did not come back any more.兔子跑进了森林再也没有出来了。
He added some wood to increase the fire.
他加了一些木柴，使火旺些。
Earthenware has an advantage over wood in being more easily kept clean.
陶器的优点在于比木器更容易保持清洁。
Worms have bored into the wood.
虫子已经蛀穿了木料。
He hurried by and disappeared in the wood.
他匆匆走过去，消失在森林里。
We walked far into the woods.
我们步行深入林中。
A cigarette thrown into the woods in dry weather may start a fire.
在天气干燥时把点燃的香烟扔进树林可能会引起火灾。
He put some more wood on the fire.
他在火里加了一些柴。
They searched the woods for the little boy.
他们在森林中搜寻到了那个小男孩。
He watched his woods filled up with snow.
他眼看着他的树林渐渐被雪覆盖。
The dog followed the fox's tracks into the woods.
那只狗沿着狐狸的足迹跑进了树林。
There is a troop of monkeys in the woods.
林子中有一群猴子。
I warned them that there might be snakes in the woods.
我提醒他们树林里可能有蛇。
You should put some more wood in the fire.
你应该再往火里添些木料。
The goods will be packed in wood wool to prevent damage.
货物将用细刨花包装，以防损坏。
Even woods have ears.
隔墙有耳。
Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
没有脱离危险不要先欢呼。
Don't whistle until you are out of the wood.
没有脱离险境，不要过早高兴。
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
饥饿引狼出森林。
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
老柴最好烧，陈酒最好饮，老友最可靠，老作家的书最好读。
Old wood is best to burn, old book to read.
老柴好烧，老书宜读。
Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride.
老柴好烧，老马好骑。
One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
深知底蕴，不以为怪。
Three things soon pass away; the echo of the woods, the rainbow, and woman's beauty.
三样东西最易消逝∶树林的回响，
彩虹和妇女的美貌。
cut of the woods 脱离危险期
Knock on wood. 说话禁忌,赶紧讨个吉利.
木材 timbering; timber; wood; lumber
刨花 [bào huā] /wood shavings/
槎 [chá] /a raft made of bamboo or wood/to fell trees/to hew/
多树木 [duō shù mù] /wooded/
槁 [gǎo] /dry/rotten (as wood)/
岵 [hù] /wooded hill/
剞 [jī] /curved wood graver/
镌 [juān] /degrade/engrave (wood or stone)/
蠡 [lǐ] /wood-boring insect/
林 [lín] /woods/forest/
木 [mù] /tree/wood/
木材 [mù cái] /wood/
木头 [mù tou ] /log/wood/timber/
樵 [qiáo] /firewood/gather wood/
树林 [shù lín] /woods/grove/forest/
檀 [tán] /sandal wood/
梧桐 [wú tóng] /(n) wutong tree (fermiana platanifolia), a lightweight and strong wood often used for musical instuments; Chinese parasol tree/
斫 [zhuó] /chop/carve wood/
{adj: aromatic, redolent} having a strong pleasant odor
"the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford
{adj: ashen} made of wood of the ash tree
{adj: bar-shaped} shaped like a rigid strip of metal or wood
{adj: bare, unfinished} lacking a surface finish such as paint
"bare wood"
"unfinished furniture"
{adj: beechen} consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree
{adj: birch, birchen, birken} consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
{adj: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark} extremely dark
"a black moonless night"
"through the pitch-black woods"
"it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
{adj: braky} abounding with bracken
"the woods and braky glens"- William Browne
{adj: brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown} of a color similar to that of wood or earth
{adj: burled} (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl
{adj: burned, burnt, burned-over, burned-out, burnt-out} destroyed or badly damaged by fire
"a row of burned houses"
"a charred bit of burnt wood"
"a burned-over site in the forest"
"barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"
{adj: burning} consuming fuel; used in combination
"coal-burning (or wood-burning) stoves"
{adj: certain, sure} reliable in operation or effect
"a quick and certain remedy"
"a sure way to distinguish the two"
"wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
{adj: close-grained, fine-grained} dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
"fine-grained birch"
{adj: coarse-grained, large-grained} not having a fine texture
"coarse-grained wood"
"large-grained sand"
{adj: deep} very distant in time or space
"deep in the past"
"deep in enemy territory"
"deep in the woods"
"a deep space probe"
{adj: dense, thick} hard to pass through because of dense growth
"dense vegetation"
"thick woods"
{adj: eerie, eery} inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
"an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"
"an eerie midnight howl"
{adj: fine} of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
"wood with a fine grain"
"fine powdery snow"
"fine rain"
"batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"
"covered with a fine film of dust"
<-> coarse
{adj: fissile} capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain
"fissile crystals"
"fissile wood"
<-> nonfissile
{adj: fixed} securely placed or fastened or set
"a fixed piece of wood"
"a fixed resistor"
<-> unfixed
{adj: fumed} (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes
"fumed oak"
{adj: green, unripe, unripened, immature} not fully developed or mature; not ripe
"unripe fruit"
"fried green tomatoes"
"green wood"
<-> ripe
{adj: half-timber, half-timbered} having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
{adj: lignified, woody} made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
{adj: nonporous} not porous; especially not having vessels that appear as pores
"nonporous wood"
<-> porous
{adj: nonwoody} not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood
<-> woody
{adj: numinous} evincing the presence of a deity
"a numinous wood"
"the most numinous moment in the Mass"
{adj: oaken} consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree
"a solid oak table"
"the old oaken bucket"
{adj: paintable} lending itself to being painted
"a highly paintable landscape"
"made of sturdy eminently paintable wood"
<-> unpaintable
{adj: petrified, mineralized} converted into a mineral
"petrified wood"
{adj: phosphorescent} emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous
"the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood"
{adj: pyroligneous, pyrolignic} of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation
{adj: raw, unsanded} used of wood and furniture
"raw wood"
{adj: sappy} abounding in sap
"sappy maple trees"
"sappy kindling wood"
{adj: scrabbly, scrubby} sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
"open scrubby woods"
{adj: seasoned} aged or processed
"seasoned wood"
<-> unseasoned
{adj: silver, silvern, silvery} having the white lustrous sheen of silver
"a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"
"repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"
{adj: smoked, smoke-cured, smoke-dried} (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
{adj: solid} entirely of one substance with no holes inside
"a solid block of wood"
<-> hollow
{adj: splintery, slivery} resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
"a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
{adj: split} (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
"we bought split logs for the fireplace"
{adj: sylvan, silvan} relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
"a shady sylvan glade"
{adj: timbered} furnished with or made of wood or timbers
"timbered walls"
<-> untimbered
{adj: uneven} not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
"an uneven color"
"uneven ground"
"uneven margins"
"wood with an uneven grain"
<-> even
{adj: unsuitable} not meant or adapted for a particular purpose
"a solvent unsuitable for use on wood surfaces"
{adj: unwooded, treeless} not wooded
<-> wooded
{adj: wooded} covered with growing trees and bushes etc
"wooded land"
"a heavily wooded tract"
<-> unwooded
{adj: wooden} made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
"a wooden box"
"an ancient cart with wooden wheels"
{adj: woodsy} characteristic or suggestive of woods
"a fresh woodsy fragrance"
{adj: woody} made of or containing or resembling wood
"woody plants"
"perennial herbs with woody stems"
"a woody taste"
<-> nonwoody
{adv: away} so as to be removed or gotten rid of
"cleared the mess away"
"the rotted wood had to be cut away"
{adv: deep} to far into space
"penetrated deep into enemy territory"
"went deep into the woods";
{adv: raggedly, stragglingly} in a ragged irregular manner
"a stone wall trails raggedly through the woods"
{n: African mahogany} African tree having hard heavy odorless wood
{n: African scented mahogany, cedar mahogany, sapele mahogany, Entandrophragma cylindricum} African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown
{n: African walnut, Lovoa klaineana} tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany
{n: Aix, genus Aix} wood duck and mandarin duck
{n: American germander, wood sage, Teucrium canadense} subshrub with serrate leaves and cream to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
{n: American white oak, Quercus alba} large slow-growing deciduous tree of the eastern United States having stout spreading branches and leaves with usually 7 rounded lobes; yields strong and durable hard wood
{n: Ardennes} a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
{n: Artamidae, family Artamidae} wood swallows
{n: Australian pine, Casuarina equisetfolia} common Australian tree widely grown as an ornamental in tropical regions; yields heavy hard red wood
{n: Australian sumac, Rhodosphaera rhodanthema, Rhus rhodanthema} evergreen of Australia yielding a dark yellow wood
{n: Battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, Marne River} a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918
{n: Bermuda buttercup, English-weed, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis cernua} South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers
{n: Blackburn, Blackburnian warbler, Dendroica fusca} black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat
{n: Blephilia, genus Blephilia} small genus of North American herbs: wood mints
{n: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, jacaranda, Dalbergia nigra} an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
{n: Bumelia, genus Bumelia} deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex
{n: Bunyan, Paul Bunyan} a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
"Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"
"the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"
{n: Burma padauk, Burmese rosewood, Pterocarpus macrocarpus} tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany
{n: California laurel, California bay tree, Oregon myrtle, pepperwood, spice tree, sassafras laurel, California olive, mountain laurel, Umbellularia californica} Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
{n: Cape May warbler, Dendroica tigrina} North American wood warbler; olive green and yellow striped with black
{n: Carolina allspice, strawberry shrub, strawberry bush, sweet shrub, Calycanthus floridus} hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers
{n: Caryocar, genus Caryocar} type genus of the Caryocaraceae; South American trees yielding strong fine-grained wood and edible nuts
{n: Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, evergreen wood fern, Polystichum acrostichoides} North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
{n: Corticium, genus Corticium} genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia
{n: Cryptotermes, genus Cryptotermes} genus of dry wood termites; cosmopolitan in distribution; sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes
{n: Diospyros, genus Diospyros} a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood
{n: Dipterocarpaceae, family Dipterocarpaceae} chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins
{n: Engelmann spruce, Engelmann's spruce, Picea engelmannii} tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown; wood used for rough lumber and boxes
{n: English walnut, English walnut tree, Circassian walnut, Persian walnut, Juglans regia} Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
{n: Eugenia, genus Eugenia} tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood
{n: European wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus} nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
{n: French polish, French polish shellac} a varnish for wood consisting of shellac dissolved in alcohol
{n: Goldie's fern, Goldie's shield fern, goldie's wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana} North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe
{n: Hamamelidoxylon, genus Hamamelidoxylon} genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel
{n: Hylocichla, genus Hylocichla} American thrush: wood thrush; hermit thrush; veery
{n: Indian blackwood, East Indian rosewood, East India rosewood, Indian rosewood, Dalbergia latifolia} East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood
{n: Ixodes dentatus} usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
{n: Ixodes neotomae} a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats
{n: Ixodes pacificus, western black-legged tick} feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California
{n: Ixodes spinipalpis} usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
{n: Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura} a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
{n: Japanese beech} a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood
{n: Japanese cedar, Japan cedar, sugi, Cryptomeria japonica} tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood
{n: Japanese oak, Quercus mongolica, Quercus grosseserrata} oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan
{n: Jew's-ear, Jew's-ears, ear fungus, Auricularia auricula} widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood
{n: Judas tree, love tree, Circis siliquastrum} small tree of the eastern Mediterranean having abundant purplish-red flowers growing on old wood directly from stems and appearing before the leaves: widely cultivated in mild regions; wood valuable for veneers
{n: Kalotermes, genus Kalotermes} type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees
{n: Moreton Bay chestnut, Australian chestnut} Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood
{n: Mycteria, genus Mycteria} a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis
{n: Nevelson, Louise Nevelson} United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988)
{n: New Forest} an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies
{n: New World warbler, wood warbler} small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song
{n: New York fern, Parathelypteris novae-boracensis, Dryopteris noveboracensis} slender shield fern of moist woods of eastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Dryopteris
{n: Oregon ash, Fraxinus latifolia, Fraxinus oregona} timber tree of western North America yielding hard light wood; closely related to the red ash
{n: Ormosia, genus Ormosia} genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood
{n: Oxalidaceae, family Oxalidaceae, wood-sorrel family} a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
{n: Pacific yew, California yew, western yew, Taxus brevifolia} small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close-grained wood
{n: Pan, goat god} (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus
{n: Panama redwood, quira} hard heavy red wood of a quira tree
{n: Parula, genus Parula} type genus of the Parulidae: wood warblers
{n: Peromyscus, genus Peromyscus} New World wood mice
{n: Philippine mahogany, Philippine cedar, kalantas, Toona calantas, Cedrela calantas} Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood
{n: Phoeniculidae, family Phoeniculidae} wood hoopoes
{n: Pholiota, genus Pholiota} genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood
{n: Port Orford cedar} the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree
{n: Protium, genus Protium} genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi
{n: Quaker gun} a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood
{n: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, mountain fever, tick fever} caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
{n: Sabinea, genus Sabinea} small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs: carib wood
{n: Satyridae, family Satyridae} a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods
{n: Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, family Ipidae} large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
{n: Shumard oak, Shumard red oak, Quercus shumardii} large deciduous red oak of southern and eastern United States having large seven-lobed to nine-lobed elliptical leaves, large acorns and medium hard coarse-grained wood
{n: Simarouba, genus Simarouba} type genus of Simaroubaceae; tropical American trees and shrubs having a pale soft wood and bitter bark
{n: Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis} a large spruce that grows only along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada; has sharp stiff needles and thin bark; the wood has a high ratio of strength to weight
{n: Spanish cedar, Spanish cedar tree, Cedrela odorata} tropical American tree yielding fragrant wood used especially for boxes
{n: Spanish elm, Equador laurel, salmwood, cypre, princewood, Cordia alliodora} large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood
{n: Stylophorum, genus Stylophorum} wood poppies
{n: Sylvanus, Silvanus} (Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart
{n: Texas purple spike, Hexalectris warnockii} orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas
{n: Viburnum, genus Viburnum} deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree
{n: Wilderness} a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
{n: Wilson's warbler, Wilson's blackcap, Wilsonia pusilla} yellow wood warbler with a black crown
{n: Wood's metal, Wood's alloy} a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium; melts at about 160 degrees Fahrenheit
{n: Wood, Grant Wood} United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
{n: Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood} English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
{n: Wood, Natalie Wood} United States film actress (1938-1981)
{n: Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood} English conductor (1869-1944)
{n: aalii} a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood
{n: adhesiveness, adhesion, adherence, bond} the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
{n: adz, adze} an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
{n: aisle} a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
{n: alder, alder tree} north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant
{n: alder} wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
{n: allyl alcohol, propenyl alcohol} an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals
{n: alpine ash, mountain oak, Eucalyptus delegatensis} tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood
{n: aluminum chloride, aluminium chloride} a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst
{n: amboyna, Andaman redwood} mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
{n: angiospermous yellowwood} any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood
{n: annual ring, growth ring} an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow
{n: applewood} wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus
{n: arariba, Centrolobium robustum} Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood
{n: arrow wood, Viburnum recognitum} closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia
{n: arrow wood, southern arrow wood, Viburnum dentatum} deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
{n: ash} strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
{n: balsa, Ochroma lagopus} forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts
{n: balsa, balsa wood} strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
{n: barbasco, joewood, Jacquinia keyensis} West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood
{n: barbecue pit} a pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat
{n: bark beetle} small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
{n: bar} a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
"there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"
{n: basket oak, cow oak, Quercus prinus, Quercus montana} medium to large deciduous tree of the eastern United States; its durable wood is used as timber or split and woven into baskets or chair seats
{n: basswood, linden} soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork
{n: bastard lignum vitae, Guaiacum sanctum} small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood
{n: beam} long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
{n: beaver board} a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp
{n: beech, beechwood} wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
{n: beefwood, Grevillea striata} tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
{n: beefwood} any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
{n: beefwood} any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
{n: belaying pin} a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing)
{n: bentwood} wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture
"bentwood chairs"
{n: birch} hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
{n: bird's-eye maple} maple wood having a wavy grain with eyelike markings
{n: bird's-foot violet, pansy violet, Johnny-jump-up, wood violet, Viola pedata} common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies
{n: bister, bistre} a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
{n: bitterwood tree} any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
{n: black ash, basket ash, brown ash, hoop ash, Fraxinus nigra} vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn
{n: black locust} strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay
{n: black maire, Olea cunninghamii} northern Zealand tree having dense hard light-brown wood
{n: black spruce, Picea mariana, spruce pine} small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
{n: black walnut, black walnut tree, black hickory, Juglans nigra} North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
{n: blackwood, blackwood tree} any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
{n: blackwood} very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
{n: block plane} a small plane used on end grains of wood
{n: bloodwood tree, kiaat, Pterocarpus angolensis} deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood
{n: blue ash, Fraxinus quadrangulata} ash of central and southern United States with bluish-green foliage and hard brown wood
{n: board foot} the volume of a piece of wood 1 foot square and 1 inch thick
{n: bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals, maraca} a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
{n: boomerang, throwing stick, throw stick} a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
{n: bosk} a small wooded area
{n: bow} a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands, used in playing certain stringed instrument
{n: bow} a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
{n: bow} curved piece of resilient wood with taut cord to propel arrows
{n: boxwood, Turkish 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
{n: bracelet wood, Jacquinia armillaris} small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets
{n: bracket fungus, shelf fungus} a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures
{n: brand, firebrand} a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning
{n: brassie} (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon
{n: brazilian ironwood, Caesalpinia ferrea} thornless tree yielding heavy wood
{n: brazilwood, peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata} tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
{n: brazilwood} heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods
{n: breakax, breakaxe, break-axe, Sloanea jamaicensis} West Indian timber tree having very hard wood
{n: briarwood, brierwood, brier-wood} wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes
{n: brown pine, Rockingham podocarp, Podocarpus elatus} large Australian tree with straight-grained yellow wood that turns brown on exposure
{n: brush turkey, Alectura lathami} black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
{n: brushwood} the wood from bushes or small branches
"they built a fire of brushwood"
{n: bucksaw} a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck
{n: bur oak, burr oak, mossy-cup oak, mossycup oak, Quercus macrocarpa} medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood
{n: burl} the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
{n: butternut, butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea} North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
{n: button tree, button mangrove, Conocarpus erectus} evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
{n: cabbage bark, cabbage-bark tree, cabbage tree, Andira inermis} tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
{n: cabinet wood} moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork
"teak and other heavy cabinet wood"
{n: cabin} a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
{n: camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora} large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor
{n: camwood, African sandalwood, Baphia nitida} small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
{n: capercaillie, capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus} large black Old World grouse
{n: caracolito, Ruptiliocarpon caracolito} large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families
{n: carib wood, Sabinea carinalis} small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges
{n: carpenter ant} ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs
{n: carpenter bee} large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems
{n: carpentry, woodworking, woodwork} the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
{n: carving} a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape
{n: cedar, cedarwood} durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests
{n: celandine poppy, wood poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum} perennial here native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers
{n: chafeweed, wood cudweed, Gnaphalium sylvaticum} weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
{n: charcoal, wood coal} a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
{n: cherry} wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
{n: chestnut, chestnut tree} any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
{n: chestnut} wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
{n: chinquapin oak, chinkapin oak, yellow chestnut oak, Quercus muehlenbergii} medium-sized deciduous tree of the eastern United States that yields a strong durable wood
{n: chipboard, hardboard} a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin
{n: chock, wedge} a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
{n: chopping block} a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split
{n: cigar-box cedar} fragrant wood much used for cigar boxes
{n: cinder, clinker} a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
{n: citronwood} wood of a citron tree
{n: clearing, glade} a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
{n: cleat} a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached
{n: clothespin, clothes pin, clothes peg} wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline
{n: clout nail, clout} a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood
{n: cocuswood, cocoswood, granadilla wood} wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets
{n: common oak, English oak, pedunculate oak, Quercus robur} medium to large deciduous European oak having smooth leaves with rounded lobes; yields hard strong light-colored wood
{n: common spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus} small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit
{n: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, shamrock, Oxalis acetosella} Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
{n: cookstove} a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)
{n: coping saw} a handsaw with a taut thin blade; used for cutting small curves in wood
{n: coralwood, coral-wood, red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera pavonina} East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
{n: cordage} the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords
{n: cordwood} firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord
{n: cord} a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet
{n: cork tree, Erythrina vespertilio} prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood
{n: corkwood, corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana} very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood
{n: corrugated fastener, wiggle nail} a small strip of corrugated steel with sharp points on one side; hammered across wood joints in rough carpentry
{n: countersink} a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface
{n: courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril} West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood
{n: cramp} a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
{n: crate} a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
{n: creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata} creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
{n: creosote, coal-tar creosote} a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
{n: creosote} a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic
{n: cresol, methyl phenol} any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant
{n: cypress} wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
{n: dagame, lemonwood tree, Calycophyllum candidissimum} source of a tough elastic wood
{n: dartboard, dart board} a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts
{n: deathwatch beetle, deathwatch, Xestobium rufovillosum} bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
{n: decal, decalcomania} the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface
{n: dell, dingle} a small wooded hollow
{n: dogwood} hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood
{n: doorsill, doorstep, threshold} the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
{n: douglas fir} tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles
{n: downy wood mint, Blephilia celiata} a variety of wood mint
{n: driftwood} wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
{n: driver, number one wood} a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
{n: drum sander, electric sander, sander, smoother} a power tool used for sanding wood; a loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor
{n: dry-wood termite} any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil
{n: dryad, wood nymph} a deity or nymph of the woods
{n: dundathu pine, queensland kauri, smooth bark kauri, Agathis robusta} Australian timber tree resembling the kauri but having wood much lighter in weight and softer
{n: durmast, Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora} deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood
{n: dusky-footed wood rat} a wood rat with dusky feet
{n: dyewood} any wood from which dye is obtained
{n: dynamite} an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp
{n: east African cedar, Juniperus procera} tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood
{n: eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana} large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
{n: elm, elmwood} hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
{n: ember, coal} a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
{n: eucalyptus} wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber
{n: excelsior, wood shavings} thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing
{n: false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella unifoliata} plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana
{n: fiberboard, fibreboard, particle board} wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets
{n: field mouse, fieldmouse} any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
{n: field trip} a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination
{n: file} a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
{n: fingerboard} a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers
{n: firewood} wood used for fuel
"they collected and cut their own firewood"
{n: fir} nonresinous wood of a fir tree
{n: fishing rod, fishing pole} a rod of wood or steel or fiberglass that is used in fishing to extend the fishing line
{n: flycatching warbler} any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing
{n: forest fire} an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
{n: forest, wood, woods} the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
{n: fragrant cliff fern, fragrant shield fern, fragrant wood fern, Dryopteris fragrans} fern or northern Eurasia and North America having fragrant fronds
{n: fruitwood} wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork
{n: gelignite, gelly} a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate
{n: giant kangaroo, great grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus} very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas
{n: gliricidia} any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous
{n: graining, woodgraining} a texture like that of wood
{n: grain} the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
"saw the board across the grain"
{n: granadilla wood} dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets
{n: green algae, chlorophyte} algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water
{n: grey birch, gray birch, American grey birch, American gray birch, Betula populifolia} medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
{n: grove, woodlet, orchard, plantation} garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
{n: guaiac wood, guaiacum wood} heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes
{n: gumwood, gum} wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
{n: gymnospermous yellowwood} any of various gymnospermous trees having yellow wood
{n: hairy wood mint, Blephilia hirsuta} a variety of wood mint
{n: handsaw, hand saw, carpenter's saw} a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
{n: hard beech, Nothofagus truncata} tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood
{n: hardwood} the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
{n: harpulla, Harpullia cupanioides} fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building
{n: hatchet} a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood)
{n: hazel, hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala} Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
{n: hazel} the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
{n: heart-leaved aster, Aster cordifolius} perennial wood aster of eastern North America
{n: heartwood, duramen} the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
{n: hedge violet, wood violet, Viola sylvatica, Viola reichenbachiana} common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows
{n: hemlock} soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
{n: hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods, Polyporus frondosus, Grifola frondosa} large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees
{n: herb bennet, cloveroot, clover-root, wood avens, Geum urbanum} hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally
{n: holm oak, holm tree, holly-leaved oak, evergreen oak, Quercus ilex} evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood
{n: holm oak} hard wood of the holm oak tree
{n: honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos} tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
{n: hoop pine, Moreton Bay pine, Araucaria cunninghamii} pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
{n: hoop, ring} a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
"there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"
{n: horseshoe crab, king crab, Limulus polyphemus, Xiphosurus polyphemus} large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse
{n: huon pine, Lagarostrobus franklinii, Dacrydium franklinii} Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium
{n: hutch} a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
{n: impregnation, saturation} the process of totally saturating something with a substance
"the impregnation of wood with preservative"
"the saturation of cotton with ether"
{n: in-basket, in-tray} a wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your incoming material
<-> out-basket
{n: incense cedar} any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood
{n: incense wood} fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium
{n: inlay} a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
{n: ironwood} exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
{n: ivory tree, conessi, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica} tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
{n: jackstraw, spillikin} a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws
{n: jiqui, Malpighia obovata} Cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture
{n: joiner} a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
{n: kaffir boom, Cape kafferboom, Erythrina caffra} small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles
{n: kahikatea, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, Podocarpus dacrydioides} New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood
{n: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis} tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
{n: kauri} white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis
{n: kingwood, kingwood tree, Dalbergia cearensis} Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood
{n: kingwood} handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork
{n: kitchen match} a wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves
{n: knot} a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
"the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
{n: kowhai, Sophora tetraptera} shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood
{n: kurrajong, currajong, Brachychiton populneus} widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle
{n: lacquerware} a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals
{n: lancewood} durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools
{n: larch} wood of a larch tree
{n: large-leaved aster, Aster macrophyllus} tufted perennial wood aster of North America; naturalized in Europe
{n: lath and plaster} a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster
{n: lathe} machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
{n: lath} a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework
{n: lattice, latticework, fretwork} framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
{n: laurelwood, lancewood tree, Calophyllum candidissimum} tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood
{n: leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris} deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
{n: lemonwood, lemon-wood, lemonwood tree, lemon-wood tree, Psychotria capensis} South African evergreen having hard tough wood
{n: lemonwood} hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods
{n: lepidobotrys} African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds
{n: lightness, weightlessness} the property of being comparatively small in weight
"the lightness of balsa wood"
<-> heaviness
{n: lignin} a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
{n: lignite, brown coal, wood coal} intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
{n: lignum vitae, Guaiacum officinale} 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
{n: lignum vitae, guaiac, guaiacum} hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
{n: lined snake, Tropidoclonion lineatum} secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States
{n: log line} a knotted cord that runs out from a reel to a piece of wood that is attached to it
{n: lumber, timber} the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
{n: madrona, madrono, manzanita, Arbutus menziesii} evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning
{n: mahoe, majagua, mahagua, balibago, purau, Hibiscus tiliaceus} shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament
{n: mahogany, mahogany tree} 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
{n: mahogany} wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture
{n: maple} wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
{n: marblewood, marble-wood, Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii} large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
{n: marblewood, marble-wood} hard marbled wood
{n: marginal wood fern, evergreen wood fern, leatherleaf wood fern, Dryopteris marginalis} North American fern with evergreen fronds
{n: marlberry, Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata} tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries
{n: marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota} tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
{n: match, lucifer, friction match} lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
"he always carries matches to light his pipe"
"as long you've a lucifer to light your fag"
{n: matchstick} a short thin stick of wood used in making matches
{n: matchwood, splinters} wood in small pieces or splinters
"the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks"
{n: matchwood} fragments of wood
"it was smashed into matchwood"
{n: matchwood} wood suitable for making matchsticks
{n: match} a burning piece of wood or cardboard
"if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode"
{n: mayeng, maple-leaved bayur, Pterospermum acerifolium} Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree
{n: mercuric chloride, mercury chloride, bichloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate} a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative
{n: metal wood} golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head
{n: methanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit} a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol
{n: millettia} any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood
{n: miro, black pine, Prumnopitys ferruginea, Podocarpus ferruginea} New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry
{n: moosewood, moose-wood, striped maple, striped dogwood, goosefoot maple, Acer pennsylvanicum} maple of eastern North America with striped bard and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
{n: mountain ash, Eucalyptus regnans} tree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world
{n: mountain ebony, orchid tree, Bauhinia variegata} small East Indian tree having orchidlike flowers and hard dark wood
{n: mountain four o'clock, Mirabilis oblongifolia} leafy wildflower with lavender-pink flowers that open in the evening and remain through cool part of the next day; found in open woods or brush in mountains of southern Colorado to Arizona and into Mexico
{n: mountain hemlock, black hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana} large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock
{n: mountain laurel, wood laurel, American laurel, calico bush, Kalmia latifolia} a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
{n: native beech, flindosa, flindosy, Flindersia australis} tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc
{n: needlewood, needle-wood, needle wood, Hakea leucoptera} large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
{n: newspaper, newsprint} cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers
"they used bales of newspaper every day"
{n: northern red oak, Quercus rubra, Quercus borealis} large symmetrical deciduous tree with rounded crown widely distributed in eastern North America; has large leaves with triangular spiny tipped lobes and coarse-grained wood less durable than that of white oaks
{n: nurse log} a large decomposing tree trunk that has fallen, usually in a forest; the decaying wood provides moisture and nutrients for a variety of insects and plants
{n: oak} the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
{n: obeche, obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon} 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
{n: obeche} the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering
{n: oca, oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata} South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
{n: old-man-of-the-woods, Strobilomyces floccopus} edible mild-tasting mushroom found in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America
{n: olive} hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork
{n: orangewood} fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork
{n: osage orange, bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera} small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge
{n: out-basket, out-tray} a wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your outgoing material
<-> in-basket
{n: oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel} any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
{n: oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, oyster agaric, Pleurotus ostreatus} edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
{n: padauk, padouk, amboyna, Pterocarpus indicus} tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
{n: palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer} tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
{n: paper} a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
{n: paring, sliver, shaving} a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
{n: parquetry, parqueterie} a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor
{n: parula warbler, northern parula, Parula americana} small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America
{n: pecan} wood of a pecan tree
{n: peg top} a pear-shaped top made of wood with a metal center pin
{n: pencil cedar, pencil cedar tree} any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils
{n: pencil cedar} wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils
{n: pencil} a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
{n: pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens} small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
{n: piciform bird} any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood
{n: piddock} marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells
{n: pile, spile, piling, stilt} a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
{n: pine knot} a joint of pine wood used for fuel
{n: pine snake} any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods; now threatened
{n: pine tar} a dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood
{n: pin} a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
{n: plain, field, champaign} extensive tract of level open land
"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"
"he longed for the fields of his youth"
{n: plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane} a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
"the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
{n: plane, planer, planing machine} a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
{n: plate} a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
{n: plywood, plyboard} a laminate made of thin layers of wood
{n: ply} (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
{n: pole} a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
{n: poon} any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
{n: poon} wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars
{n: poplar, poplar tree} any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
{n: poplar} soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar
{n: portia tree, bendy tree, seaside mahoe, Thespesia populnea} pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds
{n: post oak, box white oak, brash oak, iron oak, Quercus stellata} small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts
{n: potbelly, potbelly stove} a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned
{n: powder-post termite, Cryptotermes brevis} extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions
{n: power saw, saw, sawing machine} a power tool for cutting wood
{n: pyre, funeral pyre} wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
{n: pyrography} the act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame
{n: pyroligneous acid, wood vinegar} a red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tars
{n: quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara} 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
{n: quassia} a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
{n: rail} a horizontal bar (usually of wood)
{n: rasp, wood file} a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
{n: ratel, honey badger, Mellivora capensis} nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia
{n: raw wood} wood that is not finished or painted
{n: red alder, Oregon alder, Alnus rubra} large tree of Pacific coast of North America having hard red wood much used for furniture
{n: red beech, brown oak, booyong, crow's foot, stave wood, silky elm, Heritiera trifoliolata, Terrietia trifoliolata} large tree of Australasia
{n: red cedar} fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees
{n: red lauan} hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany
{n: redwood} the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees
{n: renewable resource} any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time
{n: rensselaerite} a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler
{n: ripsaw, splitsaw} a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
{n: rod} a long thin implement made of metal or wood
{n: rolling pin} utensil consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at each end; used to roll out dough
{n: rosewood, rosewood tree} 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
{n: rosewood} hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
{n: ruby wood, red sandalwood} hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
{n: rule, ruler} measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
{n: sabicu, Lysiloma sabicu} West Indian tree yielding la hard dark born wood resembling mahogany in texture and value
{n: sabicu, sabicu wood} the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany
{n: sabot, wooden shoe} a shoe carved from a single block of wood
{n: sandarac, citronwood} durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain)
{n: sandarac, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata, Callitris quadrivalvis} large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes
{n: 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
{n: sassafras, sassafras tree, Sassafras albidum} yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America
{n: satinleaf, satin leaf, caimitillo, damson plum, Chrysophyllum oliviforme} tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit
{n: satinwood, West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum} West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood
{n: satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia} East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood;
{n: satinwood} hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools
{n: sawdust} fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
{n: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck} a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
{n: sawyer} one who is employed to saw wood
{n: scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea} medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn
{n: scauper, scorper} a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal
{n: scriber, scribe, scratch awl} a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
{n: scrub beefwood, beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus} tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
{n: seaside alder, Alnus maritima} shrub or small tree of southeastern United States having soft light brown wood
{n: shaper, shaping machine} a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
{n: shellac, shellac varnish} a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
{n: shim} a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
{n: shingle oak, laurel oak, Quercus imbricaria} small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having leaves that shine like laurel; wood is used in western states for shingles
{n: shingle tree, Acrocarpus fraxinifolius} East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes
{n: shittah, shittah tree} source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia
{n: shittimwood} wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew tabernacle
{n: silk oak} any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering
{n: silver maple, Acer saccharinum} a common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood
{n: silver-bell tree, silverbell tree, snowdrop tree, opossum wood, Halesia carolina, Halesia tetraptera} medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas
{n: ski} narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
{n: skunk, polecat, wood pussy} American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
{n: slat, spline} a thin strip (wood or metal)
{n: slippery elm, red elm, Ulmus rubra} North American elm having rough leaves that are red when opening; yields a hard wood
{n: softwood, deal} wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
{n: southern live oak, Quercus virginiana} medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding
{n: southern red oak, swamp red oak, turkey oak, Quercus falcata} large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
{n: spar} a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
{n: spike} a long sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
{n: splat} a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
{n: splicer} a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice
{n: spline} a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines
{n: splinter, sliver} a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
"he got a splinter in his finger"
"it broke into slivers"
{n: splint} a thin sliver of wood
"he lit the fire with a burning splint"
{n: split} a lengthwise crack in wood
"he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
{n: spoon} formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
{n: spruce pine, Pinus glabra} large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood
{n: spruce} light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
{n: spurge laurel, wood laurel, Daphne laureola} bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers
{n: stainer} a worker who stains (wood or fabric)
{n: stand} tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
{n: stave, lag} one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
{n: stick} a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
{n: stick} a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
"cinnamon sticks"
"a stick of dynamite"
{n: stick} an implement consisting of a length of wood
"he collected dry sticks for a campfire"
"the kid had a candied apple on a stick"
{n: stob} a short straight stick of wood
{n: straightedge} hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
{n: strip} thin piece of wood or metal
{n: sugar maple, rock maple, Acer saccharum} maple of eastern and central North America having three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies
{n: sugarberry, Celtis laevigata} deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood
{n: sumac} wood of a sumac
{n: supplejack} walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine
{n: swamp cottonwood, black cottonwood, downy poplar, swamp poplar, Populus heterophylla} North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
{n: swamp white oak, swamp oak, Quercus bicolor} large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
{n: sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch, Betula lenta} common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
{n: sweet gum, satin walnut, hazelwood, red gum} reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture
{n: sycamore, lacewood} variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
{n: sylvan, silvan} a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
{n: tablet} a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription
{n: tall oil} an oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants
{n: tamarind, tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica} long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp
{n: tarwood, tar-wood, Dacrydium colensoi} New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes
{n: tarwood, tar-wood, New Zealand mountain pine, Halocarpus bidwilli, Dacrydium bidwilli} New Zealand shrub
{n: teak, Tectona grandis} tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
{n: teak, teakwood} hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
{n: tenon} a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint
{n: termite, white ant} whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood
{n: timber} a beam made of wood
{n: timber} a post made of wood
{n: tolu tree, tolu balsam tree, Myroxylon balsamum, Myroxylon toluiferum} medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork
{n: toothpick} pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth
{n: totara, Podocarpus totara} valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves
{n: trillium, wood lily, wake-robin} any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
{n: trumpetwood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, snake wood, imbauba, Cecropia peltata} tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
{n: tulip tree, tulip poplar, yellow poplar, canary whitewood, Liriodendron tulipifera} tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work
{n: tulipwood tree} any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood
{n: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar} light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
{n: tulipwood} the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees
{n: tung oil, Chinese wood oil} a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree
{n: tupelo} pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum
{n: umbrella tree, umbrella magnolia, elkwood, elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala} small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
{n: underbrush, undergrowth, underwood} the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
{n: veneer, veneering} coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
{n: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods} a surrounding or nearby region
"the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
"it is a rugged locality"
"he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
"I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"
{n: violet wood sorrel, Oxalis violacea} perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
{n: wallboard, drywall} a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
{n: walnut} hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
{n: water gum, Nyssa aquatica} columnar swamp tree of southeastern to midwestern North America yielding pale soft easily worked wood
{n: water locust, swamp locust, Gleditsia aquatica} honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
{n: wayfaring tree, twist wood, twistwood, Viburnum lantana} vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black
{n: weka, maori hen, wood hen} flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting
{n: western wood pewee, Contopus sordidulus} small flycatcher of western North America
{n: westland pine, silver pine, Lagarostrobus colensoi} timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood
{n: white ash, Fraxinus Americana} spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood
{n: white fir, Colorado fir, California white fir, Abies concolor, Abies lowiana} medium to tall fir of central to western United States having a narrow erect crown and soft wood
{n: white pine} any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine
{n: white pine} soft white wood of white pine trees
{n: white stringybark, thin-leaved stringybark, Eucalyptusd eugenioides} stringybark having white wood
{n: white wood aster, Aster divaricatus} rhizomatous perennial wood aster of eastern North America with white flowers
{n: whitebark pine, whitebarked pine, Pinus albicaulis} small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine
{n: wild garlic, wood garlic, Ramsons, Allium ursinum} pungent Old World weedy plant
{n: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta} sometimes placed in genus Scilla
{n: wild mango, dika, wild mango tree, Irvingia gabonensis} African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
{n: wild strawberry, wood strawberry, Fragaria vesca} Europe
{n: willow oak, Quercus phellos} medium to large deciduous oak of the eastern United States having long lanceolate leaves and soft strong wood
{n: window} a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
{n: winter's bark, winter's bark tree, Drimys winteri} South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood
{n: wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa} European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands
{n: wood anemone, snowdrop, Anemone quinquefolia} common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers
{n: wood ant, Formica rufa} reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands
{n: wood aster} any of several asters of eastern North America usually growing in woods
{n: wood chisel} a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand
{n: wood drake} male wood duck
{n: wood duck, summer duck, wood widgeon, Aix sponsa} showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees
{n: wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern} any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
{n: wood grain, woodgrain, woodiness} texture produced by the fibers in wood
{n: wood hoopoe} tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest
{n: wood horsetail, Equisetum Sylvaticum} Eurasia except southern Russia; northern North America
{n: wood ibis, wood stork, Ibis ibis} any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
{n: wood ibis, wood stork, flinthead, Mycteria americana} an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
{n: wood lily, Lilium philadelphicum} lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers
{n: wood meadowgrass, Poa nemoralis, Agrostis alba} slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia
{n: wood mint} American herb of genus Blephilia with more or less hairy leaves and clusters of purplish or bluish flowers
{n: wood mouse} any of various New World woodland mice
{n: wood nettle, Laportea canadensis} American perennial herb found in rich woods and provided with stinging hairs; provides fibers used for textiles
{n: wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus} Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
{n: wood pulp} wood that has been ground to a pulp; used in making cellulose products (as rayon or paper)
{n: wood rabbit, cottontail, cottontail rabbit} common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
{n: wood rat, wood-rat} any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
{n: wood sage, Teucrium scorodonia} European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America
{n: wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides} European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters
{n: wood sugar, xylose} a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
{n: wood swallow, swallow shrike} Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow
{n: wood tar} any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood
{n: wood thrush, Hylocichla mustelina} large thrush common in eastern American woodlands; noted for its melodious song
{n: wood tick, American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis} common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
{n: wood vise, woodworking vise, shoulder vise} a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it
{n: wood warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix} European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage
{n: wood-frog, wood frog, Rana sylvatica} wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
{n: woodborer, borer} any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood
{n: woodcarving} a carving created by carving wood
{n: woodcraft} skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
{n: woodcraft} skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood
{n: woodcut, wood block, wood engraving} engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
{n: woodcut, wood engraving} a print made from a woodcut
{n: woodcutter} cuts down trees and chops wood as a job
{n: wooden spoon} a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood
{n: wooden spoon} a spoon made of wood
{n: woodenware} ware for domestic use made of wood
{n: woodhewer, woodcreeper, wood-creeper, tree creeper} any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
{n: woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker} bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
{n: woodpile} a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel
{n: woodscrew} a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver
{n: woodsman, woodman} someone who lives in the woods
{n: woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood} any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
{n: woodworker, woodsman, woodman} makes things out of wood
{n: woodwork} work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
{n: wood} a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head
"metal woods are now standard"
{n: wood} the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
{n: yellow pine} any of various pines having yellow wood
{n: yellow pine} hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine
{n: yellow warbler, golden warbler, yellowbird, Dendroica petechia} yellow-throated American wood warbler
{n: yellowwood, yellowwood tree} any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract
{n: yellowwood} the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees
{n: yew} wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
{n: zebrawood, zebrawood tree} any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood
{n: zebrawood} handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork
{n: zinc sulfate, zinc sulphate, white vitriol, zinc vitriol} a colorless water-soluble powder; used as a mordant or to preserve wood or for the electrodeposition of zinc
{v: axe, ax} chop or split with an ax
"axe wood"
{v: burn, combust} undergo combustion
"Maple wood burns well"
{v: bushwhack} cut one's way through the woods or bush
{v: chop, chop up} cut into pieces
"Chop wood"
"chop meat"
{v: cog} join pieces of wood with cogs
{v: cramp} secure with a cramp
"cramp the wood"
{v: creosote} treat with creosote
"creosoted wood"
{v: do, make} create or design, often in a certain way
"Do my room in blue"
"I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
<-> unmake
{v: dump} throw away as refuse
"No dumping in these woods!"
{v: forage} wander and feed
"The animals forage in the woods"
{v: get rid of, remove} dispose of
"Get rid of these old shoes!"
"The company got rid of all the dead wood"
{v: grain} paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
{v: hatch} draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
"hatch the sheet"
{v: hound, hunt, trace} pursue or chase relentlessly
"The hunters traced the deer into the woods"
"the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
{v: hunt, run, hunt down, track down} pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"
"The dogs are running deer"
"The Duke hunted in these woods"
{v: inlay} decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal
{v: joint, articulate} provide with a joint
"the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"
{v: laminate} split (wood) into thin sheets
{v: lapidify, petrify} change into stone
"the wood petrified with time"
{v: log, lumber} cut lumber, as in woods and forests
{v: make} be suitable for
"Wood makes good furniture"
{v: maul} split (wood) with a maul and wedges
{v: panel} decorate with panels
"panel the walls with wood"
{v: plane, shave} cut or remove with or as if with a plane
"The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
{v: pulp} reduce to pulp
"pulp fruit"
"pulp wood"
{v: raft} transport on a raft
"raft wood down a river"
{v: recess} make a recess in
"recess the piece of wood"
{v: repair, resort} move, travel, or proceed toward some place
"He repaired to his cabin in the woods"
{v: rip} cut (wood) along the grain
{v: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond} move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"
"roving vagabonds"
"the wandering Jew"
"The cattle roam across the prairie"
"the laborers drift from one town to the next"
"They rolled from town to town"
{v: run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away} flee ; take to one's heels ; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"
"The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
{v: saw} cut with a saw
"saw wood for the fireplace"
{v: sculpt, sculpture, grave} shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
"She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
{v: sculpt, sculpture} create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
"sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"
{v: sift} move as if through a sieve
"The soldiers sifted through the woods"
{v: sliver} form into slivers
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