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1. wood
   A secondary tissue found in seed plants which consists largely of xylem tissue.
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2. Wood
   Wood is a township in Clark County Indiana, USA Wood is a town in Wood County Wisconsin, USA Wood is a town in Mellette County South Dakota, USA Wood is a township in Huntingdon County Pennsylvania, USA Wood is a township in Emmons County North Dakota, USA Wood is a township in Wright County Missouri, USA
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3. Wood
   Wood is slang for cannabis.
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4. wood
   [adj] - concerning or dwelling or situated in a wood 2. [n] - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees 3. [n] - United States film actress (1938-1981) 4. [n] - English conductor (1869-1944) 5. [n] - English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) 6. [n] - United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) 7. [n] - a golfclub with a long shaft used to hit long shots
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5. Wood
   The woodlands during the Iron Age were heavily managed to produce the right wood for the builder and carpenter. Methods of production include coppicing and pollarding. Uses of wood: Construction of buildings Lathe turned bowls, platters Boats - plank built and hollowed log Boxes - storage chests, and bent wood boxes Fences - wattle and hurdles Fuel…
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6. Wood
   A hard substance which forms the branches and trunks of trees and which can be used as a building material, for making things, or as a fuel. Wood properties depend on moisture content. Wood is a composite fibrous material (cellulose and lignin fibres) that starts to decompose at 550 K.Acacia A durable wood used for palings and posts. A lot of the g…
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7. wood
   a community of trees growing more or less closely together,of smaller extent than a forest and generally larger than a coppice Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a disk on the surface of which digital data are directly recorded by the user by means of microprocessor-controlled laser electronics and read directly by means of a reflected laser beam …
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8. Wood
   Wood and wood products used as fuel, including round wood (cord wood), limb wood, wood chips, bark, sawdust, forest residues, charcoal, pulp waste, and spent pulping liquor.
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9. Wood
   wood is the material forming the trunks and branches of trees. Timber (lumber in America) is cut from the trunk. It is the most amazing building material, capable, properly stressed, of spanning over seventy feet. Its true value has perhaps tended to be underestimated because it is seldom obv...
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10. Wood
    wood is the material forming the trunks and branches of trees. Timber (lumber in America) is cut from the trunk. It is the most amazing building material, capable, properly stressed, of spanning over seventy feet. Its true value has perhaps tended to be underestimated because it is seldom obv...
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11. Wood
    Wood (wod) adjective [ Middle English wod , Anglo-Saxon wōd ; akin to Old High German wuot , Icelandic ōðr , Goth. wōds , Dutch woede madness, German wuth , wut , also to Anglo-Saxon wōð song, Icelandic ōðr , Latin vates a seer, a poet. Confer Wednesday .] Mad; insane; possess …
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12. Wood
    Wood intransitive verb To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. Chaucer.
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13. Wood
    Wood noun [ Middle English wode , wude , Anglo-Saxon wudu , wiodu ; akin to Old High German witu , Icelandic vi...r , Dan. & Swedish 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 …
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14. Wood
    Wood transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wooded ; present participle & verbal noun Wooding .] To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
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15. Wood
    Wood intransitive verb To take or get a supply of wood.
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16. wood
    Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. ... Alternative forms: wode] "Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood." (Chaucer) ... Origin: OE. Wod, AS. Wd; akin to OHG. Wuot, Icel. R, Goth. Wds, D. Woede madness, G. Wuth, wut, also to AS. W song, Icel. R, L. Vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday. ... To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. …
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17. Wood
    Grant Wood noun United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
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18. wood
    noun the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
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19. Wood
    Ellen Price Wood noun English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
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20. Wood
    Sir Henry Joseph Wood noun English conductor (1869-1944)
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21. Wood
    noun United States film actress (1938-1981)
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22. Wood
    `Wood` is a hard, fibrous, lignified structural tissue produced as secondary xylem in the stems of woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. This tissue conducts water to the leaves and other growing tissues and has a support function, enabling plants to reach large sizes. Wood may also refer to other plant materials and tissues with comparable properties. Wood is a heterogeneous, hygroscopic, cellular and anisotropic material. Wood is compo...
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23. Wood
    `Wood` is a hard, fibrous, lignified structural tissue produced as secondary xylem in the stems of woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. This tissue conducts water to the leaves and other growing tissues and has a support function, enabling plants to reach large sizes. Wood may also refer to other plant materials and tissues with comparable properties. Wood is a heterogeneous, hygroscopic, cellular and anisotropic material. Wood is compo...
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24. Wood
    • (a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. • (v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood. • (n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. • (n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. • (n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance wh...
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25. wood
    the principal strengthening and nutrient-conducting tissue of trees and other plants and one of the most abundant and versatile natural materials. ... [65 related articles]
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