English > wood: 8 senses > noun 1, substance| Meaning | The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
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| Narrower | Panama redwood, quira | Hard heavy red wood of a quira tree |
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| alder | wood of any of various alder trees |
| ash | Strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees |
| balsa, balsa wood | Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats |
| bamboo | The hard woody stems of bamboo plants |
| basswood, linden | Soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees |
| beech, beechwood | wood of any of various beech trees |
| beefwood | Any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families ... / families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae |
| bentwood | wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture |
| birch | Hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees |
| black locust | Strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree |
| blackwood | Very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees |
| boxwood, Turkish boxwood | Very hard tough / tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box) |
| brazilwood | Heavy wood of various brazilwood trees |
| briarwood, brierwood, brier-wood | wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea |
| brushwood | The wood from bushes or small branches |
| burl | The wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth |
| cabinet wood | Moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork / cabinetwork |
| cedar, cedarwood | durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar ... / cedar trees |
| cherry | wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry |
| chestnut | wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea |
| citronwood | wood of a citron tree |
| cocuswood, cocoswood, granadilla wood | wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets |
| cypress | wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus |
| dogwood | Hard tough / tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus |
| driftwood | wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore |
| dyewood | Any wood from which dye is obtained |
| ebony | Hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree |
| elm, elmwood | Hard tough / tough wood of an elm tree |
| eucalyptus | wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber |
| fir | nonresinous wood of a fir tree |
| fruitwood | wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork / cabinetwork |
| granadilla wood | dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets |
| guaiac wood, guaiacum wood | heartwood of a palo santo |
| gumwood, gum | wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum |
| hardwood | The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) |
| hazel | The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) |
| heartwood, duramen | The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant |
| hemlock | Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock |
| hickory | Valuable tough / tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees |
| incense wood | fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium |
| ironwood | exceptionally tough / tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood ... / ironwood ... / ironwood trees |
| kauri | white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis |
| kingwood | handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree |
| knot | A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged |
| lancewood | durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree |
| larch | wood of a larch tree |
| lemonwood | Hard tough / tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree |
| lignum vitae, guaiac, guaiacum | Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum |
| locust | hardwood from any of various locust trees |
| log | A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches |
| logwood | Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree |
| mahogany | wood of any of various mahogany trees |
| maple | wood of any of various maple trees |
| matchwood | wood suitable for making matchsticks |
| matchwood, splinters | wood in small pieces or splinters |
| oak | The hard durable wood of any oak |
| obeche | The wood of an African obeche tree |
| olive | Hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree |
| orangewood | fine-grained wood of an orange tree |
| pecan | wood of a pecan tree |
| pine | straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus |
| poon | wood of any poon tree |
| poplar | Soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar |
| pyinma | relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle |
| raw wood | wood that is not finished or painted |
| red lauan | Hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree |
| redwood | The soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees |
| rosewood | Hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain |
| ruby wood, red sandalwood | Hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus) |
| sabicu, sabicu wood | The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany |
| sandalwood | close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood |
| sandarac, citronwood | durable fragrant wood |
| sapwood | newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant |
| satinwood | Hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster |
| sawdust | fine particles of wood made by sawing wood |
| shittimwood | wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle |
| silver quandong | pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree |
| softwood, deal | wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) |
| spruce | light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees |
| sumac | wood of a sumac |
| sycamore, lacewood | variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough / tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree |
| teak, teakwood | Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees |
| tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar | light easily worked wood of a tulip tree |
| tulipwood | The variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees |
| tupelo | pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum |
| walnut | Hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees |
| wicker | Slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes) |
| yellowwood | The yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees |
| yew | wood of a yew |
| zebrawood | handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree |
| Broader | plant material, plant substance | material derived from plants |
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| Substance of | beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction |
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| chopping block | A steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split |
| lumber, timber | The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material |
| spindle | A piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe |
| Substances | lignin | A complex polymer |
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| Spanish | madera |
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| Catalan | fusta |
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| Adjectives | woody | made of or containing or resembling wood |
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