Definition of wood

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Wood (n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain..

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Zantewood :: Zantewood (n.) Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out..
Cockshut :: Cockshut (n.) A kind of net to catch woodcock.
Lingoa Wood :: Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood.
Lignite :: Lignite (n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal..
Liquidambar :: Liquidambar (n.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor..
Rocker :: Rocker (n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks..
Climber :: Climber (n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot..
Sye :: Syderolite (n.) A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.
Joiner :: "Joiner (n.) A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc..
Joiner :: "Joiner (n.) One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings..
Loom :: Loom (n.) A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making..
Lign-aloes :: Lign-aloes (n.) Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum..
Pinite :: Pinite (n.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
Sawhorse :: Sawhorse (n.) A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck..
Liriodendron :: Liriodendron (n.) A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch..
Whistlewood :: Whistlewood (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple..
Woodcutting :: Woodcutting (n.) The act or art of engraving on wood.
Wood-sere :: Wood-sere (n.) The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
Grain :: Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
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