wood
noun
[ wʊd ]
• the hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber.
• "a block of wood"
• an area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees.
• "a thick hedge divided the wood from the field"
Similar:
forest,
woodland,
trees,
copse,
thicket,
coppice,
grove,
brake,
plantation,
spinney,
holt,
greenwood,
boscage,
Origin:
Old English wudu, from a Germanic word related to Welsh gwŷdd ‘trees’.
