Woods vs Trees - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between woods and trees

is that woods is plural of lang=en while trees is plural of lang=en.

is that woods is third-person singular of wood while trees is third-person singular of tree.

is an English topographic surname, variant of Wood.

(head)

(uncountable) A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.

(Military) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).

In English, one does not say "I was lost in the wood''',"'' but rather ''"I was lost in the '''woods ."

* See also

* out of the woods * woodsman

(head)

(wood)

English pluralia tantum

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(tree)

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