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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Bavin :: Bavin (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood..
Tessera :: Tessera (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes..
Xylocarpous :: Xylocarpous (a.) Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.
Torch :: Torch (n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame..
Xylindein :: Xylindein (n.) A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo..
Trogue :: Trogue (n.) A wooden trough, forming a drain..
Pyrrol :: Pyrrol (n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red..
Forest :: Forest (v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.
Porkwood :: Porkwood (n.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood..
Throe :: Throe (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
Underbrush :: Underbrush (n.) Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth..
Timber :: Timber (n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.
Wood :: Wood (n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal..
Knurl :: Knurl (n.) A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
Bosk :: Bosk (n.) A thicket; a small wood.
Knag :: Knag (n.) A wooden peg for hanging things on.
Suffruticose :: Suffrutescent (a.) Slightly woody at the base.
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..
Debouch :: Debouch (v. i.) To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue..
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