wooden(WOOD)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of wood
American elm
Atlantic white cedar
balsa wood
bark
basswood
black locust
boxwood
cork
knotty
lumber
matchwood
MDF
mulga
oaken
paulownia
piny
pitch pine
ponderosa pine
softwood
three-ply

wood | American Dictionary

wood
noun
us/wʊd/

woodnoun (HARD MATERIAL)

[ C/U ]
the hard substance that forms the inside part of the branches and trunk of a tree, used to make things or as a fuel:
[ C ]He makes tables and other things from different kinds of wood.

woodnoun (GROUP OF TREES)

[ C ]
woods:
Beyond them lay a dense wood.

Examples of wood

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Other products ranged from aromatic woods and rattans through to a range of ancillary medical and culinary products.
Out of the woods: emerg ing traditions in the teaching of wr iting.
Nevertheless, in many cases the woods produced by deciduous and evergreen conifers may be distinguished from one another on the basis of percentage skew values.
Zones of medieval land-use (open fields, woods and meadow land) are often readily identifiable.
The limits of the proposed reserve were chosen because the central part had virtually intact forest areas which included potentially valuable teak woods.
Their woods are avoided and nobody fishes in their pools.
An appropriately bucolic sinfonia introduces her, and a change of scene to the wild woods.
They lived in the woods all the time, with a contemptible appearance, their whole life in the woods.
The relationship between leaf longevity and growth ring markedness in modern conifer woods and its implications for palaeoclimatic studies.
Naturally, wood's use as fuel figured prominently among these voluntary statements by declarants.
Elemental analyses were completed on samples of historic woods using multi-elemental inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy.
The historic woods that currently have increased levels of lead pose no problems, but locations should be noted when future restoration work is done.
The house was isolated in some woods on a hill and the effects were visible from a large distance, drawing the audience to the spot.
The house itself sat off in the woods.
We can't go back to the era when mangos grew liberally on the trees and game ran free in the woods.
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Collocations withwood

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These are words often used in combination with wood.

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beech wood
Directives have to be supplemented as we acquire more scientific evidence, such as the evidence we have now obtained on oak and beechwood.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
burned wood
Most houses around us burned wood at that time.
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