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woodwoses

woodwoses is the plural of woodwose.

Meaning of woodwose

Noun

woodwose (plural woodwoses)

  1. A wild man of the woods; a faun or satyr, or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
    • The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf.1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Questions about woodwoses

What is woodwoses the plural of?
Woodwoses is the plural of woodwose.

Words near woodwoses in the dictionary

  1. woodworms
  2. woodwormy
  3. Woodworth
  4. Woodworths
  5. woodwose
  6. woodwoses
  7. woodwright
  8. woodwrights
  9. woody
  10. woody breast
  11. Woody Creek

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