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WOODS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("woods" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Meronyms (members of "woods"):
underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woods"):
bosk (a small wooded area)
grove (a small growth of trees without underbrush)
jungle (an impenetrable equatorial forest)
rain forest; rainforest (a forest with heavy annual rainfall)
old growth; virgin forest (forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity)
second growth (a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting)
Derivation:
woodsy (abounding in trees)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb wood
Context examples:
After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Far away, from among the Kentish woods there rose a thin spray of smoke.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
How I looked forward to catch the first view of the well-known woods!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to the Abbey Mill, perhaps into his woods.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I do not think you will find your woods by any means worse stocked than they were.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was tired of the woods and the shrubberies—always so smooth and so dry; and the abbey in itself was no more to her now than any other house.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
