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Wood

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Noun

wood (uncountable and countable)

  1. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree that can be used by humans to manufacture various items.
  2. (countable) A type of golf club the head of which is frequently made of wood.

Derived terms

Translations

substance

  • Breton: koad m -eier / -où
  • Catalan: fusta f (ca)
  • Chinese:
  • Dutch: hout n
  • Esperanto: ligno
  • Estonian: puit
  • Finnish: puu
  • French: bois m
  • Frisian: hout n
  • German: Holz n
  • Greek: [[ ]] (xylo)
  • Guarani: yvyra
  • Hungarian: fa
  • Indonesian: kayu
  • Interlingua: ligno
  • Italian: legno m
  • Japanese:
  • Latin: lignum (1), silva (2)
  • Polish: drewno n
  • Portuguese: madeira f
  • Romanian: lemn n
  • Slovene: les m
  • Spanish: madera f
  • Swedish: trä
  • Tupinambá: ybyrá
  • Turkish: odun
  • Welsh: coed
  • Ossetian: хъæд

type of golf club

  • Finnish: puu
  • German: Holz n

Adjective

wood (no comparative or superlative)

  1. Made of wood.

Synonyms

Translations

  • Finnish: puinen , puu- (prefix in a compound)

made of wood See wooden

Verb

wood (wooded, wooding )

Transitive

  1. Supply or cover with trees.
    He is down in the wooded dell.


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