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green-wood

green-wood is the alternative form of greenwood.

Meaning of greenwood

Noun

greenwood (countable and uncountable, plural greenwoods)

  1. A forest in full leaf, as in summer.
    • Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]1588, William Byrd; Giovanni Ferretti, composer, Musica Transalpina: Tenor. Madrigales Translated of Foure, Fiue and Sixe Partes, Chosen out of Diuers Excellent Authors, vvith the first and second...
  2. Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned.
    • For the Spleene. 58 R. Aſhen keyes, and the Greenewood, burne them, & make Lye of the Aſhes: […]1640, T[homas] B[rugis], The Marrovv of Physicke. Or, a Learned Discourse of the Severall Parts of Mans Body. Being a Medicamentary Teaching the Maner and Way of Making and Compounding All Such...
  3. Certain half-shrubby species of genista.

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Forms of green-wood

pluralgreen-woods

Questions about green-wood

What is green-wood the alternative form of?
Green-wood is the alternative form of greenwood.

Words near green-wood in the dictionary

  1. green-wing
  2. green-winged
  3. green-winged teal
  4. green-winged teals
  5. green-wings
  6. green-wood
  7. green-woods
  8. green-yard
  9. green-yards
  10. green-yellow
  11. green-yellows

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