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orewood

orewood is the obsolete form of oarweed.

Meaning of oarweed

Noun

oarweed (plural oarweeds)

  1. A brown alga, Laminaria digitata, found on exposed shores.
    • The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.1627, John Speed, “Cornwall”, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged. […], London: […] Georg Humble […], →OCLC, signature [D6], verso, paragraph 3

Forms of orewood

pluralorewoods

Questions about orewood

What is orewood the obsolete form of?
Orewood is the obsolete form of oarweed.

Words near orewood in the dictionary

  1. orestrate
  2. Oresund
  3. Oresund Bridge
  4. oreweed
  5. oreweeds
  6. orewood
  7. orewoods
  8. orexes
  9. orexigen
  10. orexigenic
  11. orexigenics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orewood (page history and authors); oarweed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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