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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 whistle
  2. green whistles
  3. green with envy
  4. green withe
  5. green withes
  6. green wood
  7. green woodpecker
  8. green woodpeckers
  9. green woods
  10. green wrasse
  11. green yard

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