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basswood
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n 1: soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees;
used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork
[syn: basswood, linden]
2: any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-
shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often
fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber [syn:
linden, linden tree, basswood, lime, lime tree]
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bentwood
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n 1: wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is
shaped for use in making furniture; "bentwood chairs"
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boxwood
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n 1: very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box
(particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork:
musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks [syn:
boxwood, Turkish boxwood]
2: evergreen shrubs or small trees [syn: box, boxwood]
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brushwood
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n 1: the wood from bushes or small branches; "they built a fire
of brushwood"
2: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood,
coppice, copse, thicket]
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cottonwood
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n 1: any of several North American trees of the genus Populus
having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
2: American basswood of the Allegheny region [syn: white
basswood, cottonwood, Tilia heterophylla]
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dogwood
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n 1: a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy
bracts resembling flowers [syn: dogwood, dogwood tree,
cornel]
2: hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles
boxwood
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driftwood
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n 1: wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
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firewood
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n 1: wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own
firewood"
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hardwood
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n 1: the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as
distinguished from the wood of conifers)
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heartwood
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n 1: the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant;
usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
[syn: heartwood, duramen]
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plywood
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n 1: a laminate made of thin layers of wood [syn: plywood,
plyboard]
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pulpwood
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n 1: softwood used to make paper
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redwood
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n 1: the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia
trees
2: either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a
height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae [syn:
sequoia, redwood]
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rosewood
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n 1: hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly
marked grain; used in cabinetwork
2: any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield
rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish
color streaked and variegated with black [syn: rosewood,
rosewood tree]
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sapwood
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n 1: newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the
heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored;
active in water conduction
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softwood
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n 1: wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or
fir) [syn: softwood, deal]
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wormwood
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n 1: any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia
or Seriphidium
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fruitwood
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n 1: wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear)
used especially in cabinetwork
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lacewood
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n 1: variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough
elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: sycamore,
lacewood]
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lightwood
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n 1: tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
[syn: lightwood, Acacia melanoxylon]
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sherwood
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n 1: United States playwright (1896-1955) [syn: Sherwood,
Robert Emmet Sherwood]
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could
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pinewood
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stinkwood
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brentwood
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harewood
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harwood
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hopwood
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kirkwood
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linwood
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lockwood
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ringwood
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