wood

noun

• 1the hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub.
• wood when cut and used as timber or fuel:a large table made of dark, polished wood best quality woods were used for joinery [as modifier]:a wood cross
• a golf club with a wooden or other head that is relatively broad from face to back (often with a numeral indicating the degree to which the face is angled to loft the ball).
• a golf shot made with a wood.

• 2 (also woods) an area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees:a thick hedge divided the wood from the field a long walk in the woods