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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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beefwood
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n 1: a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red
timber [syn: balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully
tree, Manilkara bidentata]
2: any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of
the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for
cabinetwork
3: any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina
yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
4: tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant
creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood [syn:
scrub beefwood, beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus]
5: tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood [syn: beefwood,
Grevillea striata]
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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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buttonwood
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n 1: very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central
North America to Mexico [syn: American sycamore,
American plane, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis]
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cordwood
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n 1: firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord
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corkwood
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n 1: very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp
habitats in southeastern United States having extremely
light wood [syn: corkwood, corkwood tree, Leitneria
floridana]
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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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greenwood
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n 1: woodlands in full leaf; "the greenwood was Robin Hood's
home"
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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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ironwood
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n 1: handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an
ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a
perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad
ties [syn: rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree,
Mesua ferrea]
2: exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of
ironwood trees
3: a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a
low domed shape [syn: iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood,
ironwood tree]
4: medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America [syn:
Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya
virginiana]
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lancewood
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n 1: durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used
for building and cabinetwork and tools
2: source of most of the lancewood of commerce [syn:
lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata]
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logwood
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n 1: very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood
tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
2: spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies
having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow
flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood
used in preparing a black dye [syn: logwood, logwood
tree, campeachy, bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum
campechianum]
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matchwood
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n 1: wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten
to matchwood on the rocks" [syn: matchwood, splinters]
2: wood suitable for making matchsticks
3: fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood"
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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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satinwood
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n 1: West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily
wood [syn: satinwood, West Indian satinwood,
Zanthoxylum flavum]
2: hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny
luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools
3: East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood;
[syn: satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia]
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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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touchwood
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n 1: material for starting a fire [syn: kindling, tinder,
touchwood, spunk, punk]
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tulipwood
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n 1: the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of
various tulipwood trees
2: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture
and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood,
white poplar, yellow poplar]
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whitewood
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n 1: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for
furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood,
whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar]
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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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beechwood
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n 1: wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and
containers and plywood and tool handles [syn: beech,
beechwood]
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blackwood
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n 1: very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
2: any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
[syn: blackwood, blackwood tree]
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elmwood
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n 1: hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements
and furniture [syn: elm, elmwood]
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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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wedgwood
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n 1: English potter (1730-1795) [syn: Wedgwood, Josiah
Wedgwood]
2: a type of pottery made by Josiah Wedgwood and his successors;
typically has a classical decoration in white on a blue
background
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briarwood
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n 1: wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea;
used to make tobacco pipes [syn: briarwood, brierwood,
brier-wood]
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brierwood
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n 1: wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea;
used to make tobacco pipes [syn: briarwood, brierwood,
brier-wood]
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hollywood
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adj 1: of or relating to the film industry in the United States;
"a Hollywood actor"
2: flashy and vulgar; "young white women dressed Hollywood
style"; "Hollywood philandering"
n 1: the film industry of the United States
2: a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be
characteristic of the American film industry; "some people in
publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy
the glitter of Hollywood"
3: a district of Los Angeles long associated with the American
film industry
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isherwood
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n 1: United States writer (born in England) whose best known
novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated
with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986)
[syn: Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher
William Bradshaw Isherwood]
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underwood
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n 1: the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing
beneath taller trees in a wood or forest [syn:
underbrush, undergrowth, underwood]
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cheesewood
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pinewood
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stinkwood
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wildwood
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fulwood
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ashwood
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brentwood
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dagwood
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eastwood
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fleetwood
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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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smallwood
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westwood
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yarwood
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collingwood
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sapanwood
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sappanwood
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norwood
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