WOODS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woods mean? 

• WOODS (noun)
  The noun WOODS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WOODS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODS (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("woods" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "woods"):

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 "woods"):

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)

Derivation:

woodsy (abounding in trees)

 Context examples 

No one ever moved in the silent woods.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His property here, his place, his house, every thing is in such respectable and excellent condition!—and his woods!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As he spoke the hoarse blast of a horn was heard from some woods upon the right.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remembered the man who had been shot and had run back among the woods in the great attack, and doubted not that this was he.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He sprang through the sleeping camp and in swift silence dashed through the woods.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers.

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

At irregular intervals, whenever a fight could be arranged, he was taken out of his cage and led off into the woods a few miles from town.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Such perfect color I never saw, the grass so green, sky so blue, grain so yellow, woods so dark, I was in a rapture all the way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods.

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

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)