WOODED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wooded mean? 

• WOODED (adjective)
  The adjective WOODED has 1 sense:

1. covered with growing trees and bushes etc

  Familiarity information: WOODED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with growing trees and bushes etc

Context example:

a heavily wooded tract

Similar:

arboraceous; arboreous; woodsy; woody (abounding in trees)

bosky; brushy (covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets)

braky; brambly (covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth)

forested (covered with forest)

jungly (overgrown with tropical vegetation)

overgrown (abounding in usually unwanted vegetation)

rushy (abounding in rushes)

scrabbly; scrubby (sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush)

silvan; sylvan (relating to or characteristic of wooded regions)

thicket-forming (tending to form dense thickets)

timbered (covered with growing timber)

woodsy (characteristic or suggestive of woods)

Also:

uncleared (not cleared; not rid of objects or obstructions)

Antonym:

unwooded (not wooded)

 Context examples 

The animals were found in a wooded area in Espírito Santo state, late in February this year.

(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)

It is clear that it is all thickly wooded, and it would take months to penetrate it and to learn the relations of one part to another.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you do travel for fun, choose a wooded area in the mountains—it will suit your style.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And I put the helm hard up, and the HISPANIOLA swung round rapidly and ran stem on for the low, wooded shore.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a pleasant fertile spot, well wooded, and rich in pasture.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Boscombe Pool is thickly wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the edge.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The broken and rugged road had wound along the crests of low hills, with wooded ridges on either side of it over which peeped the loftier mountains, the distant Peak of the South and the vast Altabisca, which towered high above them and cast its black shadow from left to right across the valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He plunged through the wooded breast of the island, flew down to the lower end, crossed a back channel filled with rough ice to another island, gained a third island, curved back to the main river, and in desperation started to cross it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In that direction the country was still thickly wooded, with so much undergrowth that our progress was very slow.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the left lay the green Island of Wight, with its long, low, curving hills peeping over each other's shoulders to the sky-line; to the right the wooded Hampshire coast as far as eye could reach; above a steel-blue heaven, with a wintry sun shimmering down upon them, and enough of frost to set the breath a-smoking.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)