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woods | woodish |

As a proper noun woods

is an english topographic surname, variant of wood.

As an adjective woodish is

(rare) being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.

woods

English

Noun

(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).

    • Usage notes

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

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * out of the woods * woodsman

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wood)
    • English pluralia tantum

    woodish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.
  • (obsolete) Characteristic of woods or woodland.
  • *1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
  • *:The countrey wondering at such an Hermite; His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga, Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne, an excellent Horse-man, and a noble Italian Gentleman, to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances [...].