greenwood

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. woodlands in full leaf“the greenwood was Robin Hood's home”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Greenwood \Green"wood`\, n. A forest as it appears in spring and summer. [1913 Webster]
Greenwood \Green"wood`\, a. Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen. [1913 Webster]
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