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greenwood Definition

green·wood (grēn′wo̵od′)

noun

a forest in leaf

greenwood Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • cutting: Take greenwood cuttings in early summer or layer in late summer.
  • craft: To supply fuel, material for fencing, building, greenwood crafts and other uses.
  • tree: Underneath the greenwood tree, they gave Sam a long oak staff, A kind o ' scaffold pole cut fresh from glen.
  • village: To a property of greenwood village has relied on.
  • shade: Neither the good yeoman that walks by the greenwood shade: Nor no knight or Squire that will be a good fellow.
  • trade: Without this support coppice and greenwood trades may die out in the future.

Noun used with modifier

  • root: Root greenwood cuttings in late spring or early summer, or semi-ripe cuttings in late summer.
greenwood Quotes

   Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.

—Scott, Sir Walter