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shelterwood

shelterwood noun: mature trees left standing to provide shelter to new saplings.

Noun

shelterwood (uncountable)

  1. Mature trees left standing to provide shelter to new saplings.

Origin of shelterwood

From shelter + wood.

Questions about shelterwood

What does shelterwood mean?
Shelterwood means mature trees left standing to provide shelter to new saplings.
What part of speech is shelterwood?
Shelterwood is a noun.

Words near shelterwood in the dictionary

  1. sheltermates
  2. shelters
  3. shelters in place
  4. shelters-in-place
  5. sheltersome
  6. shelterwood
  7. sheltery
  8. sheltie
  9. shelties
  10. Shelton
  11. Shelton and Hardwick

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