WOODED
wooded
(adjective) covered with growing trees and bushes etc; āwooded landā; āa heavily wooded tractā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
wooded (comparative more wooded, superlative most wooded)
Covered with trees.
(of wine) Aged in wooden casks.
Etymology 2
See wood (verb)
Verb
wooded
simple past tense and past participle of wood
Source: Wiktionary
Wood"ed, a.
Definition: Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and
watered.
The brook escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell. Sir W.
Scott.
WOOD
Wood, a. Etym: [OE. wod, AS. w; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. , Goth. w,
D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w song, Icel. , L. vates
a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday.]
Definition: Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.]
[Written also wode.]
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. Chaucer.
Wood, v. i.
Definition: To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. Chaucer.
Wood, n. Etym: [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu,
Icel. vi, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W.
gwydd trees, shrubs.]
1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; --
frequently used in the plural.
Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.
2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance
which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is
covered by the bark; timber. "To worship their own work in wood and
stone for gods." Milton.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the
stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a
less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or
needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the
shinning bands called silver grain.
Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and
lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid, Wood
vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry
distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid;
hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called pyroligneous acid.
– Wood anemone (Bot.), a delicate flower (Anemone nemorosa) of
early spring; -- also called windflower. See Illust. of Anemone.
– Wood ant (Zoƶl.), a large ant (Formica rufa) which lives in woods
and forests, and constructs large nests.
– Wood apple (Bot.). See Elephant apple, under Elephant.
– Wood baboon (Zoƶl.), the drill.
– Wood betony. (Bot.) (a) Same as Betony. (b) The common American
lousewort (Pedicularis Canadensis), a low perennial herb with
yellowish or purplish flowers.
– Wood borer. (Zoƶl.) (a) The larva of any one of numerous species
of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and
certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under
Pine. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous
insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer
(see under Peach), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various
species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex. (d) Any
one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and
species of Xylophaga. (e) Any one of several species of small
Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura
terebrans).
– Wood carpet, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood
secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. Knight.
– Wood cell (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually
tapering to a point at both ends. It is the principal constituent of
woody fiber.
– Wood choir, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. [Poetic]
Coleridge.
– Wood coal, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
– Wood cricket (Zoƶl.), a small European cricket (Nemobius
sylvestris).
– Wood culver (Zoƶl.), the wood pigeon.
– Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
engraving.
– Wood dove (Zoƶl.), the stockdove.
– Wood drink, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
– Wood duck (Zoƶl.) (a) A very beautiful American duck (Aix
sponsa). The male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its nest in trees,
whence the name. Called also bridal duck, summer duck, and wood
widgeon. (b) The hooded merganser. (c) The Australian maned goose
(Chlamydochen jubata).
– Wood echo, an echo from the wood.
– Wood engraver. (a) An engraver on wood. (b) (Zoƶl.) Any of
several species of small beetles whose larvƦ bore beneath the bark of
trees, and excavate furrows in the wood often more or less resembling
coarse engravings; especially, Xyleborus xylographus.
– Wood engraving. (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
(b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an
engraving.
– Wood fern. (Bot.) See Shield fern, under Shield.
– Wood fiber. (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue. (b) Wood comminuted,
and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass.
– Wood fretter (Zoƶl.), any one of numerous species of beetles
whose larvƦ bore in the wood, or beneath the bark, of trees.
– Wood frog (Zoƶl.), a common North American frog (Rana sylvatica)
which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season.
It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of
the head.
– Wood germander. (Bot.) See under Germander.
– Wood god, a fabled sylvan deity.
– Wood grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.
– Wood grouse. (Zoƶl.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce
partridge. See under Spruce.
– Wood guest (Zoƶl.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wood hen.
(Zoƶl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and allied species.
(b) The American woodcock.
– Wood hoopoe (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of Old World
arboreal birds belonging to Irrisor and allied genera. They are
closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a
longer tail.
– Wood ibis (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of large, long-
legged, wading birds belonging to the genus Tantalus. The head and
neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood
ibis (Tantalus loculator) is common in Florida.
– Wood lark (Zoƶl.), a small European lark (Alauda arborea), which,
like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from
its habit of perching on trees.
– Wood laurel (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub (Daphne Laureola).
– Wood leopard (Zoƶl.), a European spotted moth (Zeuzera Ʀsculi)
allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva bores in the wood of
the apple, pear, and other fruit trees.
– Wood lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
– Wood lock (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with
copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder
from rising.
– Wood louse (Zoƶl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial
isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related genera.
See Sow bug, under Sow, and Pill bug, under Pill. (b) Any one of
several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the
family PsocidƦ, which live in the crevices of walls and among old
books and papers. Some of the species are called also book lice, and
deathticks, or deathwatches.
– Wood mite (Zoƶl.), any one of numerous small mites of the family
OribatidƦ. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and
stones.
– Wood mote. (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The
court of attachment.
– Wood nettle. (Bot.) See under Nettle.
– Wood nightshade (Bot.), woody nightshade.
– Wood nut (Bot.), the filbert.
– Wood nymph. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of
the woods; a dryad. "The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim."
Milton. (b) (Zoƶl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored
moths belonging to the genus Eudryas. The larvƦ are bright-colored,
and some of the species, as Eudryas grata, and E. unio, feed on the
leaves of the grapevine. (c) (Zoƶl.) Any one of several species of
handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the
genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue.
– Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar.
We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. Neh. x. 34.
– Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian
trees of the genus Dipterocarpus, having properties similar to those
of copaiba, and sometimes substituted for it. It is also used for
mixing paint. See Gurjun.
– Wood opal (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having some
resemblance to wood.
– Wood paper, paper made of wood pulp. See Wood pulp, below.
– Wood pewee (Zoƶl.), a North American tyrant flycatcher (Contopus
virens). It closely resembles the pewee, but is smaller.
– Wood pie (Zoƶl.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the
European great spotted woodpecker.
– Wood pigeon. (Zoƶl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World
pigeons belonging to Palumbus and allied genera of the family
ColumbidƦ. (b) The ringdove.
– Wood puceron (Zoƶl.), a plant louse.
– Wood pulp (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar
and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot
solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is
now produced on an immense scale.
– Wood quail (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of East Indian
crested quails belonging to Rollulus and allied genera, as the red-
crested wood quail (R. roulroul), the male of which is bright green,
with a long crest of red hairlike feathers.
– Wood rabbit (Zoƶl.), the cottontail.
– Wood rat (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of American wild
rats of the genus Neotoma found in the Southern United States; --
called also bush rat. The Florida wood rat (Neotoma Floridana) is the
best-known species.
– Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall grass (Cinna arundinacea) growing
in moist woods.
– Wood reeve, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.] -- Wood
rush (Bot.), any plant of the genus Luzula, differing from the true
rushes of the genus Juncus chiefly in having very few seeds in each
capsule.
– Wood sage (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the
genus Teucrium. See Germander.
– Wood screw, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and usually
with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
– Wood sheldrake (Zoƶl.), the hooded merganser.
– Wood shock (Zoƶl.), the fisher. See Fisher, 2.
– Wood shrike (Zoƶl.), any one of numerous species of Old World
singing birds belonging to Grallina, Collyricincla, Prionops, and
allied genera, common in India and Australia. They are allied to the
true shrikes, but feed upon both insects and berries.
– Wood snipe. (Zoƶl.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic
snipe (Gallinago nemoricola).
– Wood soot, soot from burnt wood.
– Wood sore. (Zoƶl.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
– Wood sorrel (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis (Oxalis
Acetosella), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock.
– Wood spirit. (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.
– Wood stamp, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for
impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
– Wood star (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of small South
American humming birds belonging to the genus Calothorax. The male
has a brilliant gorget of blue, purple, and other colors.
– Wood sucker (Zoƶl.), the yaffle.
– Wood swallow (Zoƶl.), any one of numerous species of Old World
passerine birds belonging to the genus Artamus and allied genera of
the family ArtamidƦ. They are common in the East Indies, Asia, and
Australia. In form and habits they resemble swallows, but in
structure they resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and
white beneath.
– Wood tapper (Zoƶl.), any woodpecker.
– Wood tar. See under Tar.
– Wood thrush, (Zoƶl.) (a) An American thrush (Turdus mustelinus)
noted for the sweetness of its song. See under Thrush. (b) The missel
thrush.
– Wood tick. See in Vocabulary.
– Wood tin. (Min.). See Cassiterite.
– Wood titmouse (Zoƶl.), the goldcgest.
– Wood tortoise (Zoƶl.), the sculptured tortoise. See under
Sculptured.
– Wood vine (Bot.), the white bryony.
– Wood vinegar. See Wood acid, above.
– Wood warbler. (Zoƶl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of American
warblers of the genus Dendroica. See Warbler. (b) A European warbler
(Phylloscopus sibilatrix); -- called also green wren, wood wren, and
yellow wren.
– Wood worm (Zoƶl.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer.
– Wood wren. (Zoƶl.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler.
Wood, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wooding.]
Definition: To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a
steamboat or a locomotive.
Wood, v. i.
Definition: To take or get a supply of wood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition