Aloes wood () See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood () A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Army worm () A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. |
Army worm () The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton. |
Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Brazil wood () The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Campeachy Wood () Logwood. |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Galley-worm (n.) A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides |
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Grugru worm () The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy. |
Kiabooca wood () See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood. |
Myall wood () A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. |
Nicaragua wood () Brazil wood. |
Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
Sappan wood () Sapan wood. |
Sea wood louse () A sea slater. |
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Thyine wood () The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. |
Wood (a.) Mad |
Wood (v. i.) To grow mad |
Wood (n.) A large and thick collection of trees |
Wood (n.) The substance of trees and the like |
Wood (n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. |
Wood (n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. |
Wood (v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for |
Wood (v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood. |
Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. |
Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. |
Wood-note (n.) A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. |
Wood-sare (n.) A kind of froth seen on herbs. |
Wood-sere (n.) The time when there no sap in the trees |
Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ |
Wood tick () Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata. |
Wood-wash (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
Wood-wax (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen. |
Woodworm (n.) See Wood worm, under Wood. |
Worm (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. |
Worm (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals |
Worm (n.) Any helminth |
Worm (n.) Any annelid. |
Worm (n.) An insect larva. |
Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
pewee peewee peewit pewit wood pewee Contopus virens | small oliveolored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
western wood pewee Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
wood thrush Hylocichla mustelina | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands, noted for its melodious song |
wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
New World warbler wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
wood swallow swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
slender salamander worm salamander | any of several small slim salamanders of the Pacific coast of the United States |
wood-frog wood frog Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
worm lizard | a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena, harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail |
thunder snake worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
blind snake worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
wood tick American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
tongue worm pentastomid | wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth, parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals |
capercaillie capercailzie horse of the wood Tetrao urogallus | large black Old World grouse |
wood pigeon ringdove cushat Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
wood drake | male wood duck |
worm family | a family of worms |
worm genus | a genus of worms |
worm | any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes, also many insect larvae |
helminth parasitic worm | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes |
woodworm | a larva of a woodborer |
acanthocephalan spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
fluke trematode trematode worm | parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host |
ribbon worm nemertean nemertine proboscis worm | soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract |
beard worm pogonophoran | slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering, lives on the deep ocean bottom |
nematode nematode worm roundworm | unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends, mostly free-living but some are parasitic |
vinegar eel vinegar worm Anguillula aceti Turbatrix aceti | minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar |
Guinea worm Dracunculus medinensis | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates |
annelid annelid worm segmented worm | worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally |
oligochaete oligochaete worm | hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body |
a earthworm angleworm fishworm fishing worm wiggler nightwalker nightcrawler crawler dew worm red worm | terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil, often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, used as bait by anglers |
polychaete polychete polychaete worm polychete worm | chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles |
onychophoran velvet worm peripatus | any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms |
wood ibis wood stork flinthead Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downwardurved bill, inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics |
wood ibis wood stork Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
weka maori hen wood hen | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
apple maggot railroad worm Rhagoletis pomonella | larvae bore into and feed on apples |
wood ant Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
dry-wood termite | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil |
measuring worm inchworm looper | small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments, mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae |
armyworm army worm Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
tobacco hornworm tomato worm Manduca sexta | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants, similar to tomato hornworm |
tomato hornworm potato worm Manduca quinquemaculata | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants, similar to tobacco hornworm |
peanut worm sipunculid | small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut |
wood rabbit cottontail cottontail rabbit | common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside, a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
European wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |