backwood

Variant of backwoods

backwoods definition

☆ back·woods (-wo̵odz′)

plural noun

  1. heavily wooded areas far from centers of population
  2. any remote, thinly populated place

adjective

in, from, or characteristic of backwoods
also backwood back′·wood′

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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