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. |
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. |
Gopher wood
() A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
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. |
Pewee
(n.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe. |
Pewee
(n.) The woodcock. |
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. |
Western
(a.) Of or pertaining to the west |
Western
(a.) Moving toward the west |
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. |
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 |
Arkansas kingbird
western kingbird | a kingbird seen in western United States, head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black |
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 |
western meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta | a meadowlark of western North America |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
western tanager
Piranga ludoviciana | of western North America, male is black and yellow and orangeed |
western red-backed salamander
Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
wood-frog
wood frog
Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
western toad
Bufo boreas | of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies |
western spadefoot
Scaphiopus hammondii | this spadefoot toad live in California |
western narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
Western box turtle
Terrapene ornata | primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico |
western fence lizard
swift blue-belly
Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
western skink
Eumeces skiltonianus | found in western North American grasslands and open woodlands |
western whiptail
Cnemidophorus tigris | active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings, of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California |
Western ribbon snake
Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
western blind snake
Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
western coral snake
Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
prairie rattlesnake
prairie rattler
Western rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis | widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
Western diamondback
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox | largest and most dangerous North American snake, of southwestern United States and Mexico |
Ixodes pacificus
western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
wood tick
American dog tick
Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
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 |
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 |
western pipistrel
SPipistrellus hesperus | of western North America |
western big-eared bat
Plecotus townsendi | bat of western North America having extremely large ears |
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 |
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 |
| wood mouse | any of various New World woodland mice |
wood rat
woodat | any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears, some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) |
| dusky-footed wood rat | a wood rat with dusky feet |
western grey squirrel
western gray squirrel
Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
skunk
polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
western lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla gorilla | a kind of gorilla |
western chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes verus | masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa, distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees, possibly a distinct species |
double-bitted ax
double-bitted axe
Western ax
Western axe | an ax that has cutting edges on both sides of the head |
driver
number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
| metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |