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Greenwood

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A wood or forest with green foliage.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A forest in full leaf, as in summer.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A forest as it appears in spring and summer.

adj. Pertaining to a greenwood.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A wood or forest when green, as in summer.

n. Wood which has acquired a green tint under the pathological influence of the fungus Peziza.

n. Same as green-broom.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. woodlands in full leaf

Word Usage

"It is an image of liberation, but inevitably it reads as a reminder of constraint: The greenwood is a fiction, a dream out of Shakespeare's plays, not a place where actual human lives can be led."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

timberland timber woodland forest

Form

go to the greenwood

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