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greenwoods

greenwoods is the plural 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 greenwoods

alternative formgreen-woods
alternative formgreenewoods

Questions about greenwoods

What is greenwoods the plural of?
Greenwoods is the plural of greenwood.

Words near greenwoods in the dictionary

  1. greenwings
  2. greenwithe
  3. greenwood
  4. Greenwood County
  5. Greenwood Lake
  6. greenwoods
  7. greenwort
  8. greeny
  9. greenyard
  10. greenyards
  11. Greer

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