| Wood, Robert | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1868-1955. See: Wood's glass, Wood's lamp, Wood's light. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wood-bound | Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-layer | <botany> A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-note | A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." (Milton) Origin: Wood, n. + note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-sare | <botany> A kind of froth seen on herbs. Origin: Wood + Prov. E. Sare for sore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-sere | The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. Alternative forms: wood-seer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-wash | Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-wax | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-waxen | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodbind | Woodbine. "A garland . . . Of woodbind or hawthorn leaves." (Chaucer) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodbine | <botany> A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia. "Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture." (Shak) Origin: AS. Wudubind black ivy; so named as binding about trees. See Wood, and Bind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodbury-type | 1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. 2. A print from such a plate. Origin: After the name of the inventor, W. Woodbury. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodchat | <ornithology> Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath. A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodchuck | 1. <zoology> A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Synonym: ground hog. 2. <zoology> The yaffle, or green woodpecker. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodcock | 1. <ornithology> Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely in appearance and habits. 2. A simpleton. "If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!"" (Beau. & Fl) Little woodcock. The common American snipe. The European snipe. Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. Woodcock snipe. See Snipe. Origin: AS. Wuducoc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thyine wood | <botany> The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. Origin: Gr, fr, adj, pertaining to the tree or, an African tree with sweet-smelling wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| kiabooca wood | See Kyaboca wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kyaboca wood | <botany> . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lingoa wood | A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood pulp |
Mechanically ground or chemically digested wood (composed primarily of wood fiber) used to manufacture paper or fiberboard.
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| Wood's filter |
An ultraviolet light source used to diagnose some fungal and bacterial skin diseases.
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[Robert Williams Wood, U.S. physicist, 1868?1955] Ultraviolet rays; used to detect fluorescent materials in the skin and hair in certain disease states such as tinea capitis. The terms Wood's light and Wood's lamp have become synony
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methyl a.
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1. Apodemus sylvaticus, a European species that serves as a reservoir of Leptospira interrogans serovar grippotyphosa. 2. red-backed m.
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| Wood | common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers |
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| Wood | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
| Wood | any of several asters of eastern North America usually growing in woods |
| Wood | hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally |
| Wood | engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it |
| Wood | a chisel for working wood |
| Wood | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
| Wood | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
| Wood | weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike |
| Wood | male wood duck |
| Wood | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
| Wood | engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it |