Reverse Dictionary: WOOD(S)

ADJECTIVES
► BOUZY bushy, wooded; bushy in appearance → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► NEMOPHILOUS fond of frequenting woods or groves, or dwelling in them → 1860
► NEMORAL pert. to or living in groves or woods → 1656
► NEMORIVAGANT wandering in the woods ..1656
► NEMORIVAGOUS wandering in woods or groves → 1721
► NEMOROSE full of woods or groves; growing in groves → 1721
► NEMOROUS full of woods, groves, or trees; woody → 1623
► SILVATIC ► SYLVATIC found in woods; of the nature of a wood or woodland → 1668
► SILVESTER ► SYLVESTER found in woods; rustic, sylvan → 1578 obs.
► SILVESTRIAN ► SYLVESTRIAN found in woods, rustic, sylvan → 1657
► SOUND adj. of a wood: dense → 1375 obs.
► SYLVAN consisting of or formed by woods or trees → 1594
► SYLVATICAL found in woods; of the nature of a wood or woodland → 1656 obs.
► SYLVESTRIAL found in woods, rustic, sylvan → 1607
► SYLVESTRIC found in woods, rustic, sylvan → 1623 obs.
► SYLVESTRIOUS found in woods, rustic, sylvan → 1656 obs.
► SYLVESTROUS found in woods, rustic, sylvan → 1653 obs.

NOUNS
► BIG STICKS in logging: the woods → 1942 Amer. sl.
► BIRKENSHAW a small wood of birch trees → 1911 Sc.  (Bk.)
► BIRKS a coppice or small wood consisting chiefly of birches → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► EAVES of a wood: the edge, margin → 898 obs.
► GOSS a wood → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAG ► HAGG a wooded enclosure; a wood, copse → 1589 N. Eng. dial.
► HAG-ROAD a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood → 1878 Eng. dial.
► HAG-WAY a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood → 1878 Eng. dial.
► HANGING COVER a wood on the slope of a hill → 1899 Eng. dial.
► HANGING WOOD a wood on the slope of a hill → 19C Eng. dial.
► HASSOCK anything growing in a thick, matted state; a thick, wooded shaw or little wood → 1886 Eng. dial.
► HAW a small wood or coppice; a dwelling enclosed by woods; a depression in a wood → 1902 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► HAY a small wood, coppice, or plantation → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAYSTALL a small portion of wood on the outskirts of a large wood → 1777 Eng. dial.
► HURST a grove of trees; a copse; a wood → 822
► HYLEPHOBIA an intense like for wood or woods → 1991 (Bk.)
► JUNGLES open country; woods → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NEMOPHILY love of or fondness for woods → 1860
► NEMOROSITY fullness of woods; woodiness → 1721
► PUCKERBRUSH the woods or wilderness → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► REED a wood; a wood strip of land → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RIDDING a clearing, esp. an open space in a wood; a green road through a wood → 1777 Eng. dial.
► SCOPE a tract of land, woods, etc. → 1895 Amer. dial.
► SCREED a narrow plantation or belt of wood → 1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SILVICULTURE ► SYLVICULTURE the cultivation of woods or forests; the growing and tending of trees as a department of forestry → 1880
► STICKS, THE the woods → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► VERD green parts of woods, forest verdure → 1641 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BABY CROCKETT a nickname for a would-be woodsman → 1972 homosexual sl.  (Bk.)
► BERGIER a peasant, a rustic, a woodman → 1480 obs.
► BOSSLOPER an inhabitant of the woods → 1985 US (Bk.)
► BUSHLOPER an inhabitant of the woods → 1985 US (Bk.)
► BUSH-NIPPLE a hermit or woodsman → 1930 Amer. dial.
► BUSHWHACKER a woodsman → 1968 Amer. dial.
► JACKPINE FARMER a woods-dweller, esp. one thought to be ignorant or uncultivated → 1973 Amer. dial.
► JACKPINE SAVAGE a woods-dweller, esp. one thought to be ignorant or uncultivated → 1957 Amer. dial.
► NEMOPHILIST one who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a lover of the woods → 1860
► SAVAGE one who lives in a wood → 1894 (Bk.)
► SYLVAN a person who inhabits a wood or forest; a forester, a rustic → 1589
► SYLVICULTURALIST a person engaged in or skilled in sylviculture → 1971
► SYLVICULTURIST a person engaged in or skilled in sylviculture → 1887

VERBS
► BOONDOCK to take beer, broad, and blanket to the woods → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► RAREFY  to reduce the number of trees; to thin a wood → 1650 obs.