wood

Noun
  1. The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (synset 115122728)
    is a type of: plant material, plant substance - material derived from plants
    subtypes:
    • bentwood - wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture
    • pine - straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
    • larch - wood of a larch tree
    • fir - nonresinous wood of a fir tree
    • cedar, cedarwood - durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests
    • spruce - light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
    • hemlock - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
    • cypress - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
    • redwood - the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees
    • citronwood, sandarac - durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain)
    • kauri - white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis
    • yellowwood - the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees
    • yew - wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
    • lancewood - durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools
    • true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar - light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
    • zebrawood - handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork
    • cocoswood, cocuswood, granadilla wood - wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets
    • shittimwood - wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle
    • sabicu, sabicu wood - the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany
    • bamboo - the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles
    • tulipwood - the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees
    • balsa, balsa wood - strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
    • silver quandong - pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree
    • obeche - the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering
    • basswood, linden - soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork
    • beefwood - any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
    • briarwood, brier-wood, brierwood - wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes
    • beech, beechwood - wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
    • chestnut - wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
    • oak - the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
    • birch - hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
    • alder - wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
    • hazel - the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
    • olive - hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork
    • ash - strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
    • ironwood - exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
    • walnut - hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
    • hickory - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
    • pecan - wood of a pecan tree
    • pyinma - relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous
    • gum, gumwood - wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
    • eucalyptus - wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber
    • tupelo - pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum
    • poon - wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars
    • red lauan - hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany
    • elm, elmwood - hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
    • brazilwood - heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods
    • locust - hardwood from any of various locust trees
    • logwood - very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
    • rosewood - hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
    • kingwood - handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork
    • granadilla wood - dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets
    • blackwood - very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
    • panama redwood, quira - hard heavy red wood of a quira tree
    • red sandalwood, ruby wood - hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
    • black locust - strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay
    • cherry - wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
    • fruitwood - wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork
    • lemonwood - hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods
    • incense wood - fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium
    • mahogany - wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture
    • satinwood - hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools
    • orangewood - fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork
    • citronwood - wood of a citron tree
    • guaiac wood, guaiacum wood - heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes
    • guaiac, guaiacum, lignum vitae - hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum
    • poplar - soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar
    • sandalwood - close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork
    • boxwood, turkish boxwood - very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks
    • maple - wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
    • sumac - wood of a sumac
    • ebony - hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
    • lacewood, sycamore - variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
    • teak, teakwood - hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
    • dogwood - hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood
    • sapwood - newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction
    • duramen, heartwood - the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood
    • burl - the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
    • brushwood - the wood from bushes or small branches
    • cabinet wood - moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork
    • driftwood - wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
    • log - a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
    • matchwood - wood suitable for making matchsticks
    • matchwood, splinters - wood in small pieces or splinters
    • sawdust - fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
    • wicker - slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork
    • dyewood - any wood from which dye is obtained
    • hardwood - the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)
    • deal, softwood - wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
    • raw wood - wood that is not finished or painted
    • knot - a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
    substance holonym: lignin - a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
    substance meronym:
    • beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
    • chopping block - a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split
    • spindle - a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
    • lumber, timber - the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
  2. The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area (synset 108455525)
    is a type of: botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period
    subtypes:
    • 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
    member holonym:
    • 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
    same as: forest, woods
  3. United States film actress (1938-1981) (synset 111415890)
    is an instance of: actress - a female actor
    same as: natalie wood
  4. English conductor (1869-1944) (synset 111415768)
    is an instance of: conductor, director, music director - the person who leads a musical group
    same as: sir henry joseph wood, sir henry wood
  5. English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) (synset 111415604)
    is an instance of: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
    same as: ellen price wood, mrs. henry wood
  6. United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) (synset 111415461)
    is an instance of: painter - an artist who paints
    same as: grant wood
  7. Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments (synset 104605909)
    is a type of: wind, wind instrument - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
    subtypes:
    has:
    • finger hole - one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it
    • thumbhole - the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb
    same as: woodwind, woodwind instrument
  8. A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots;
    Originally made with a wooden head (synset 104604393)
    "metal woods are now standard"
    is a type of: club, golf club, golf-club, golfclub - golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball
    subtypes:
    • brassie - (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon
    • driver, number one wood - a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
    • metal wood - golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head
    • spoon - formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face

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