单词 | woodsheddings |
释义 | wood1 /wŭd/noun
Made of or using wood transitive verb
To take in a supply of wood (sometimes with up) ORIGIN: OE wudu; cognate with ON vithr wood, OIr fid timber woodˈed adjective
wooden adjective see separate entry woodˈless adjective Without wood woodˈlessness noun woodˈsy /wŭd-zi/ adjective (N Am inf) Characteristic of or relating to woods woody adjective see separate entry wood acid noun Wood vinegar wood alcohol noun Wood spirit wood anemone noun Any anemone growing in woods, esp Anemone nemorosa, which has a single whorl of leaves and a white flower wood ant noun
wood ash noun (often in pl) ash obtained by burning wood or plants, a source of potassium salts woodˈblock noun
woodˈ-borer noun Any of a number of insect larvae, molluscs or Crustacea, that bore into wood woodˈ-boring adjective woodˈ-born adjective Born in the woods woodˈcarver noun woodˈcarving noun
woodˈchat noun A species of shrike, with black-and-white plumage but a red-brown crown woodˈchip noun
woodchip board noun Reconstituted wooden board, chipboard woodchip paper noun Paper for decorating walls, etc, incorporating chips of wood for texture wood coal noun
woodˈcock noun
woodˈcock's-head noun (obsolete) A tobacco pipe woodˈcraft noun
woodˈcut noun
woodˈcutter noun
woodˈcutting noun wood duck noun A N American duck (Aix sponsa) that nests in tree cavities, a popular game bird wood engraver noun
wood engraving noun
woodˈ-evil noun Diarrhoea of herbivorous animals wood fibre noun A thick-walled, elongated, dead element found in wood, developed by the elongation and lignification of the wall of a single cell, differing from a tracheide in its inability to conduct water wood flour or woodˈmeal noun A fine powder, made from sawdust and wood waste, used as a filler in many industries, in the manufacture of guncotton and dynamite, and as an absorbent in surgical dressings woodˈ-fretter noun A wood-borer wood germander noun Teucrium scorodonia, which has racemes of yellow flowers woodˈgrouse noun The capercailzie wood hedgehog noun An edible fungus (Hydnum repandum) with spines under the cap woodˈhole noun A place where wood is stored wood honey noun Wild honey woodˈhorse noun A sawhorse woodˈhouse noun
wood hyacinth noun The wild hyacinth or English bluebell, of the genus Endymion (or Scilla) wood ibis noun Any bird of the genera Mycteria (or Tantalus) and Ibis of the subfamily Mycteriinae of storks woodˈland noun (also in pl) land covered with wood (also adjective) woodˈlander noun An inhabitant of woodland woodˈlark noun A species of lark that perches on trees but sings chiefly on the wing wood lot noun A piece of land reserved entirely for the growing of timber woodˈlouse noun (pl woodˈlice)
woodˈman noun
woodmeal see wood flour above. wood mite noun Any of numerous small mites found in woods woodˈmouse noun A type of fieldmouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, with large ears and a long tail wood naphtha noun Wood spirit, methanol wood nightshade another name for woody nightshade (qv under woody). woodˈnote noun (Milton) A wild musical note, like that of a songbird wood nymph noun A nymph of the woods woodˈ-offering noun (Bible) Wood burned on the altar wood oil noun
wood opal noun A form of common opal which has replaced pieces of wood entombed as fossils in sediments, in some cases retaining the original structure wood owl noun The European brown or tawny owl, or other owl living in woods wood paper noun Paper made from wood pulp woodˈpecker noun Any of a family (Picidae) of birds in the order Picariae, remarkable for modification of the skull and bill enabling the latter to be used to drill holes, and for the long flexible tongue, used to extract insects from crevices wood pigeon noun
woodˈpile noun A pile of wood, esp firewood wood pulp noun Wood mechanically or chemically pulped for paper-making woodˈrat noun Another name for the pack-rat (see under pack1) woodˈreeve noun The overseer of a wood woodˈrush noun Any plant of the genus Luzula, of the same family as the true rushes, growing in woods wood sage noun Wood germander wood sandpiper noun A common European sandpiper wood sanicle see sanicle woodˈscrew noun A tapered screw for fastening pieces of wood or wood and metal, etc woodˈshed noun
transitive verb and intransitive verb To practise (a piece of music), esp intensively and alone woodˈshedding noun
woodˈshock noun A large N American marten with dark-brown fur woodˈshrike noun The woodchat (qv above) woodˈskin noun A Native American canoe made of bark, or the bark itself woodsˈman noun
wood sorrel noun Any plant of the genus Oxalis, esp O. acetosella, with trifoliate leaves and white or rose-tinted flowers, which yields potassium binoxalate, KHC2O4.H2O wood spirit noun
woodˈspite noun The green woodpecker wood stamp noun A stamp made of wood, as for stamping fabrics in colours woodˈstone noun Petrified wood wood sugar noun Xylose wood swallow noun Any of the fly-catching Artamidae, also called swallow-shrikes, the resemblance to shrikes being more fundamental than that to swallows wood tar noun A product of destructive distillation of wood, containing paraffins, naphthalene and phenols woodˈthrush noun
wood tick noun Any tick of the family Ixodidae, the young of which are transferred to man and animals from bushes wood tin noun A botryoidal or reniform variety of the tin ore cassiterite showing a concentric structure of radiating brown, wood-like fibres wood vinegar noun Crude acetic acid obtained from wood, pyroligneous acid wood warbler noun
woodˈward noun An officer who guards or has charge of the woods wood wasp noun A large hymenopterous insect (genus Sirex) that bores wood with its ovipositor, the horntail woodˈwax or woodˈwaxen noun Dyer's greenweed woodˈwind noun
wood wool noun Fine wood shavings wood-wool slabs plural noun Slabs made from long wood shavings with a cementing material, used for linings, partitions, etc woodˈwork noun
woodˈworker noun A craftsman or worker in wood woodˈworm noun
wood wren noun
woodˈyard noun A yard in which wood is cut and stored Commissioners of Woods and Forests A department (1810–1924) having charge of the Crown woods and forests not see the wood for the trees To fail to grasp the whole because of the superabundance of, or one's over-concentration on, detail out of the wood or woods Out of difficulty or danger touch wood see under touch |
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