Woods
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English
Noun
woods
- Plural form of wood.
- (uncountable) A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.
- (Military) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
Notes
In US English, one does not say "I was lost in the wood," but rather "I was lost in the woods."
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Verb
woods
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wood.
Thesaurus
English horn, Pandean pipe, afforestation, arboretum, aulos, back country, backwoods, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, chase, clarinet, climax forest, cloud forest, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cromorne, dendrology, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, hautboy, heckelphone, hinterland, hornpipe, index forest, jungle, jungles, licorice stick, musette, national forest, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens, panpipe, park, park forest, penny-whistle, piccolo, pine barrens, pipe, pommer, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reforestation, sax, saxophone, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shawm, shrubland, silviculture, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, the bush, timber, timberland, timbers, tin-whistle, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald, whistle, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument
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