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plural of wood examples
(usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest. quotations examples
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
1923, Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Where protection is not considered essential, the logical places for establishing a woods are on those portions of the farm which have steep slopes […] .
1939, C. R. Tillotson, The Care and Improvement of the Farm Woods (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1177), page 18
Night after night, we both had similar dreams that our daughter was wandering around in a woods.
2009, James Preston Hardison, Miracles on the Poke-A-No, page 159
It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods.
2013, Robert McGowan, Current: Essays on the Passing of Time in the Woods, page 20
(military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
third-person singular simple present indicative of wood examples