Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A forest in full leaf, as in summer.

    woodlands in full leaf

  2. (countable, uncountable)Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Certain half-shrubby species of genista.

Origin

From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasone

From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasoned firewood”), equivalent to green + wood.

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