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English
Pronunciation
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Noun
woods
- plural of|wood
- uncountable A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.
- (Military) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
Usage notes
One does not say "I was lost in the wood," but rather "I was lost in the woods."
Derived terms
in the woods
out of the woods
Translations
trans-top|collection of trees
Breton: koad m, -eier / -où p
Catalan: bosc m :ca:bosc|(ca)
Chinese: æ�� (lÃn)
Dutch: bos#Dutch|bos n
Esperanto: arbaro
Estonian: mets
Finnish: metsä
French: bois m
Frisian: bosk n, wâld n
German: Wald m :de:Wald|^
Guarani: ka'aguy
Hungarian: erd�, liget
Ido: bosko
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Indonesian: pohon|pepohonan
Interlingua: bosco, silva
Italian: bosco m
Japanese: 森 (��, mori), � (���, hayashi)
Polish: las#Polish|las m
Portuguese: mata f, selva f, bosque m
Romanian: p�dure f, codru m
Slovene: gozd m, les m (liter.)
Spanish: bosque m
Swedish: skogsdunge, skog
Tupinambá: ka'a
Turkish: orman
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