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Wood

🔄 Synonyms of "Wood"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
forestnoun	A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
woodsnoun	(usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
woodennoun	Made of wood.
woodwindnoun	(music) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
woodwind instrumentnoun	(music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Wood"

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Word	Definition
forestnoun	A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
woodynoun	(climbing, slang) A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
woodennoun	Made of wood.
woodwind instrumentnoun	(music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column.
woodwindnoun	(music) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
forestrynoun	(uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
timbernoun	(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
copsenoun	Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
woodlandnoun	(loosely) Land covered with woody vegetation.
lognoun	The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
bushnoun	(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
vegetablenoun	A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
treenoun	A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
heartwoodnoun	The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.
cupnoun	A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
softwoodnoun	(countable, in more general use) Wood of this kind, but limited to those that are commercial timbers.
madeiranoun	An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
xylemnoun	(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.
hardwoodnoun	(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
cocanoun	The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.