WOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wood mean? 

• WOOD (noun)
  The noun WOOD has 8 senses:

1. the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

2. the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

3. United States film actress (1938-1981)

4. English conductor (1869-1944)

5. English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

6. United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

7. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

8. a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head

  Familiarity information: WOOD used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("wood" is a kind of...):

plant material; plant substance (material derived from plants)

Meronyms (substance of "wood"):

lignin (a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood"):

bentwood (wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture)

pine (straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus)

larch (wood of a larch tree)

fir (nonresinous wood of a fir tree)

cedar; cedarwood (durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests)

spruce (light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork)

hemlock (soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock)

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

redwood (the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees)

citronwood; sandarac (durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain))

kauri (white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis)

yellowwood (the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees)

yew (wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows)

lancewood (durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools)

true tulipwood; tulipwood; white poplar; whitewood; yellow poplar (light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer)

zebrawood (handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork)

cocoswood; cocuswood; granadilla wood (wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets)

shittimwood (wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle)

sabicu; sabicu wood (the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany)

bamboo (the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles)

tulipwood (the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees)

balsa; balsa wood (strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats)

silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)

obeche (the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering)

basswood; linden (soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork)

beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)

briarwood; brier-wood; brierwood (wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes)

beech; beechwood (wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles)

chestnut (wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)

oak (the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring)

birch (hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood)

alder (wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc)

hazel (the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris))

olive (hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork)

ash (strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats)

ironwood (exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees)

walnut (hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling)

hickory (valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees)

pecan (wood of a pecan tree)

pyinma (relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous)

gum; gumwood (wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum)

eucalyptus (wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber)

tupelo (pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum)

poon (wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars)

red lauan (hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany)

elm; elmwood (hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture)

brazilwood (heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods)

locust (hardwood from any of various locust trees)

logwood (very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye)

rosewood (hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork)

kingwood (handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork)

granadilla wood (dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets)

blackwood (very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees)

Panama redwood; quira (hard heavy red wood of a quira tree)

red sandalwood; ruby wood (hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork)

black locust (strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay)

cherry (wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry)

fruitwood (wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork)

lemonwood (hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods)

incense wood (fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium)

mahogany (wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture)

satinwood (hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools)

orangewood (fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork)

citronwood (wood of a citron tree)

guaiac wood; guaiacum wood (heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes)

guaiac; guaiacum; lignum vitae (hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum)

poplar (soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar)

sandalwood (close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork)

boxwood; Turkish boxwood (very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks)

maple (wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring)

sumac (wood of a sumac)

ebony (hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys)

lacewood; sycamore (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)

teak; teakwood (hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding)

dogwood (hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood)

sapwood (newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction)

duramen; heartwood (the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood)

burl (the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer)

brushwood (the wood from bushes or small branches)

cabinet wood (moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork)

driftwood (wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore)

log (a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches)

matchwood (wood suitable for making matchsticks)

matchwood; splinters (wood in small pieces or splinters)

sawdust (fine particles of wood made by sawing wood)

wicker (slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork)

dyewood (any wood from which dye is obtained)

hardwood (the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers))

deal; softwood (wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir))

raw wood (wood that is not finished or painted)

knot (a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged)

Holonyms ("wood" is a substance of...):

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

chopping block (a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split)

spindle (a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.)

lumber; timber (the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material)

Derivation:

woody (made of or containing or resembling wood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

forest; wood; woods

Hypernyms ("wood" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Meronyms (members of "wood"):

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood"):

bosk (a small wooded area)

grove (a small growth of trees without underbrush)

jungle (an impenetrable equatorial forest)

rain forest; rainforest (a forest with heavy annual rainfall)

old growth; virgin forest (forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity)

second growth (a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States film actress (1938-1981)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Natalie Wood; Wood

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Sense 4

Meaning:

English conductor (1869-1944)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Sir Henry Wood; Wood

Instance hypernyms:

conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)

Sense 5

Meaning:

English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ellen Price Wood; Mrs. Henry Wood; Wood

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 6

Meaning:

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Grant Wood; Wood

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wood; woodwind; woodwind instrument

Hypernyms ("wood" is a kind of...):

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)

Meronyms (parts of "wood"):

finger hole (one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it)

thumbhole (the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood"):

beating-reed instrument; reed; reed instrument (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)

flute; transverse flute (a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

metal woods are now standard

Hypernyms ("wood" is a kind of...):

club; golf-club; golf club; golfclub (golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wood"):

brassie ((formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon)

driver; number one wood (a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee)

metal wood (golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head)

spoon (formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face)

 Context examples 

Here is a nice little wood, if one can but get into it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Wood and Briggs, look at the difference!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Between us and the bottom of the sea was less than an inch of wood.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At last, however, as we reached the thicker woods they gave up the chase, and we saw them no more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet there was no want of life—the whole wide wood was full of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is one good thing about all this, observed the captain; the wood in front of us is likely clear.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Here was some thing, not wood nor iron, upon which to wreak his hate.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The blow sounded as if it had fallen on wood.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I examined the materials of the fire, and to my joy found it to be composed of wood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"I don't know; I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)