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woodsmoke

woodsmoke noun: smoke from burning wood.

Noun

woodsmoke (usually uncountable, plural woodsmokes)

  1. (usually) Smoke from burning wood.
    • I came to the southern end of a line of cliffs loftier than any I had seen before, and as I approached them, there was wafted to my nostrils the pungent aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be but a single solution: man abided close by, a higher order of man than we had...1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...

Forms of woodsmoke

pluralwoodsmokes

Origin of woodsmoke

From wood + smoke.

Questions about woodsmoke

What does woodsmoke mean?
Woodsmoke means smoke from burning wood.
What part of speech is woodsmoke?
Woodsmoke is a noun.
What is the plural of woodsmoke?
The plural of woodsmoke is woodsmokes.

Words near woodsmoke in the dictionary

  1. woodskin
  2. woodskins
  3. woodsman
  4. woodsmanship
  5. woodsmen
  6. woodsmoke
  7. woodsmoked
  8. woodsmokes
  9. Woodson
  10. Woodson County
  11. Woodsons

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