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wood         
  • black walnut]], showing the vessels, rays (white lines) and annual rings: this is intermediate between diffuse-porous and ring-porous, with vessel size declining gradually
  • Cross-section of an oak log showing growth rings
  • Rauma]], Finland.
  • Trunks of the [[coconut]] palm, a monocot, in [[Java]]. From this perspective these look not much different from trunks of a [[dicot]] or [[conifer]]
  • Wood can be cut into straight planks and made into a [[wood flooring]].
  • Chemical structure of [[lignin]], which makes up about 25% of wood dry matter and is responsible for many of its properties.
  • ''[[Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion]]'', [[Gothic boxwood miniature]]
  • date=December 16, 2008 }}",''DykerHeightsCivicAssociation.com''</ref>
  • coast redwood]] is distinctively red.
  • yew]] branch showing 27 annual growth rings, pale sapwood, dark heartwood, and [[pith]] (center dark spot). The dark radial lines are small knots.
  • A knot on a tree trunk
  • Diagram of [[secondary growth]] in a [[tree]] showing idealized vertical and horizontal sections. A new layer of wood is added in each growing season, thickening the stem, existing branches and [[root]]s, to form a [[growth ring]].
  • Earlywood and latewood in a ring-porous wood (ash) in a ''[[Fraxinus excelsior]]''; tangential view, wide growth rings
  • Wood knot in vertical section
  • Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir]]
  • The churches of [[Kizhi]], Russia are among a handful of [[World Heritage Site]]s built entirely of wood, without metal joints. See [[Kizhi Pogost]] for more details.
FIBROUS MATERIAL FROM TREES OR OTHER PLANTS
Wood, as a medium; Wooden; Heartwood; Duramen; Wood knot; Alburnum; Knot (wood); Knot (timber); Knothole; Splintwood; Latewood; Wood products; Sapwood (wood); Wood chemicals; Wood engineering design; Wood properties; Summer wood; Spring wood; Earlywood; Ring-porous wood; Diffuse-porous wood; Late wood; Wood product; Knots (wood); Table of Wood and Bamboo Mechanical and Agricultural Properties; 🪵
¦ noun
1. the hard fibrous material forming the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber.
(the wood) wooden barrels used for storing alcoholic drinks.
a golf club with a wooden or other head that is relatively broad from face to back.
another term for bowl2 (in sense 1).
2. (also woods) a small forest.
Phrases
be unable to see the wood (or N. Amer. the forest) for the trees fail to grasp the main issue because of over-attention to details.
out of the wood (or woods) [usu. with negative] out of danger or difficulty.
touch (or chiefly N. Amer. knock on) wood touch something wooden to ward off bad luck.
Derivatives
woodless adjective
Origin
OE wudu, from Gmc.
wood         
  • black walnut]], showing the vessels, rays (white lines) and annual rings: this is intermediate between diffuse-porous and ring-porous, with vessel size declining gradually
  • Cross-section of an oak log showing growth rings
  • Rauma]], Finland.
  • Trunks of the [[coconut]] palm, a monocot, in [[Java]]. From this perspective these look not much different from trunks of a [[dicot]] or [[conifer]]
  • Wood can be cut into straight planks and made into a [[wood flooring]].
  • Chemical structure of [[lignin]], which makes up about 25% of wood dry matter and is responsible for many of its properties.
  • ''[[Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion]]'', [[Gothic boxwood miniature]]
  • date=December 16, 2008 }}",''DykerHeightsCivicAssociation.com''</ref>
  • coast redwood]] is distinctively red.
  • yew]] branch showing 27 annual growth rings, pale sapwood, dark heartwood, and [[pith]] (center dark spot). The dark radial lines are small knots.
  • A knot on a tree trunk
  • Diagram of [[secondary growth]] in a [[tree]] showing idealized vertical and horizontal sections. A new layer of wood is added in each growing season, thickening the stem, existing branches and [[root]]s, to form a [[growth ring]].
  • Earlywood and latewood in a ring-porous wood (ash) in a ''[[Fraxinus excelsior]]''; tangential view, wide growth rings
  • Wood knot in vertical section
  • Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir]]
  • The churches of [[Kizhi]], Russia are among a handful of [[World Heritage Site]]s built entirely of wood, without metal joints. See [[Kizhi Pogost]] for more details.
FIBROUS MATERIAL FROM TREES OR OTHER PLANTS
Wood, as a medium; Wooden; Heartwood; Duramen; Wood knot; Alburnum; Knot (wood); Knot (timber); Knothole; Splintwood; Latewood; Wood products; Sapwood (wood); Wood chemicals; Wood engineering design; Wood properties; Summer wood; Spring wood; Earlywood; Ring-porous wood; Diffuse-porous wood; Late wood; Wood product; Knots (wood); Table of Wood and Bamboo Mechanical and Agricultural Properties; 🪵
(woods)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Wood is the material which forms the trunks and branches of trees.
Their dishes were made of wood...
There was a smell of damp wood and machine oil.
...a short piece of wood.
N-MASS
2.
A wood is a fairly large area of trees growing near each other. You can refer to one or several of these areas as woods, and this is the usual form in American English.
After dinner Alice slipped away for a walk in the woods with Artie...
About a mile to the west of town he came upon a large wood.
N-COUNT
3.
see also dead wood
4.
If something or someone is not out of the woods yet, they are still having difficulties or problems. (INFORMAL)
The nation's economy is not out of the woods yet.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
5.
You can say 'touch wood' in British English, or 'knock on wood' in American English, to indicate that you hope to have good luck in something you are doing, usually after saying that you have been lucky with it so far.
She's never even been to the doctor's, touch wood...
Touch wood, I've been lucky enough to avoid any other serious injuries.
CONVENTION
6.
your neck of the woods: see neck
can't see the wood for the trees: see tree
wood         
  • black walnut]], showing the vessels, rays (white lines) and annual rings: this is intermediate between diffuse-porous and ring-porous, with vessel size declining gradually
  • Cross-section of an oak log showing growth rings
  • Rauma]], Finland.
  • Trunks of the [[coconut]] palm, a monocot, in [[Java]]. From this perspective these look not much different from trunks of a [[dicot]] or [[conifer]]
  • Wood can be cut into straight planks and made into a [[wood flooring]].
  • Chemical structure of [[lignin]], which makes up about 25% of wood dry matter and is responsible for many of its properties.
  • ''[[Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion]]'', [[Gothic boxwood miniature]]
  • date=December 16, 2008 }}",''DykerHeightsCivicAssociation.com''</ref>
  • coast redwood]] is distinctively red.
  • yew]] branch showing 27 annual growth rings, pale sapwood, dark heartwood, and [[pith]] (center dark spot). The dark radial lines are small knots.
  • A knot on a tree trunk
  • Diagram of [[secondary growth]] in a [[tree]] showing idealized vertical and horizontal sections. A new layer of wood is added in each growing season, thickening the stem, existing branches and [[root]]s, to form a [[growth ring]].
  • Earlywood and latewood in a ring-porous wood (ash) in a ''[[Fraxinus excelsior]]''; tangential view, wide growth rings
  • Wood knot in vertical section
  • Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir]]
  • The churches of [[Kizhi]], Russia are among a handful of [[World Heritage Site]]s built entirely of wood, without metal joints. See [[Kizhi Pogost]] for more details.
FIBROUS MATERIAL FROM TREES OR OTHER PLANTS
Wood, as a medium; Wooden; Heartwood; Duramen; Wood knot; Alburnum; Knot (wood); Knot (timber); Knothole; Splintwood; Latewood; Wood products; Sapwood (wood); Wood chemicals; Wood engineering design; Wood properties; Summer wood; Spring wood; Earlywood; Ring-porous wood; Diffuse-porous wood; Late wood; Wood product; Knots (wood); Table of Wood and Bamboo Mechanical and Agricultural Properties; 🪵
n.
1.
Forest, grove, copse, thicket, wood-land, forest-land, timber-land.
2.
Timber.

Wikipedia

Wood (disambiguation)

Wood is a natural material produced by the growth of plants, mainly trees and shrubs.

Wood may also refer to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood (disambiguation)
Pronunciation examples for wood
1. Wood.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
2. It was painted wood, flesh-colored wood,
A Woman of No Importance _ Sonia Purnell _ Talks at Google
3. ATO BLANKSON-WOOD: I'm Ato Blankson-Wood.
Slave Play _ Broadway _ Talks at Google
4. "Knock wood."
Come and Find Me _ Hallie Ephron _ Talks at Google
5. Jake Wood.
Lessons in Leadership - How to Be a First Responder in Business _ Jake Wood _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of wood
1. But China, the world‘s second largest wood importer after Japan, has a rapacious appetite for wood to feed its domestic market and its large wood furniture export industry.
2. Saudi Arabia exports wood, coal, wood products, and paper products to Russia.
3. Top act÷ Victoria Wood Comedy star Victoria Wood has been voted Britain‘s funniest woman.
4. Instead of burning forest residues, machines could be used for chipping wood and using it for compost, while precious wood could be used for wood products.
5. Wood from Burma accounts for just 2 to 3 per cent of China‘s total wood imports.
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