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wetwood

wetwood noun: wood with a darkened or wet appearance resulting from abnormally high water content or a bacterial infection.

Noun

wetwood

  1. Wood with a darkened or wet appearance resulting from abnormally high water content or a bacterial infection.
    • Even though considerable data may show that a species in class 1 is not susceptible to wetwood formation, it may be important to continue looking for exceptions.1980, J. C. Ward, Wetwood in trees: a timber resource problem, page 8

Proper noun capitalized: Wetwood

Wetwood (plural Wetwoods)

  1. A habitational surname from Old English.

wetwood meaning in Tamil

wetwood in Tamil

நீரமரம்

Forms of wetwood

pluralWetwoods
alternative formWatwood

Origin of wetwood

From wet + wood.

Habitational surname from a minor place in Staffordshire, from Old English wǣt (“wet”) + wudu (“wood”).

Questions about wetwood

What does wetwood mean?
Wetwood means wood with a darkened or wet appearance resulting from abnormally high water content or a bacterial infection.
What is wetwood in Tamil?
Wetwood in Tamil is நீரமரம். See Wetwood meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wetwood?
Wetwood can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near wetwood in the dictionary

  1. wetus
  2. Wetwang
  3. wetware
  4. wetwell
  5. wetwells
  6. wetwood
  7. Wetwoods
  8. wetwork
  9. Wetz
  10. Wetzel
  11. Wetzel County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wetwood (page history and authors); Wetwood (page history and authors); wetwood (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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