wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of treesbentwood - wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture; "bentwood chairs" pine - straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus larch - wood of a larch tree fir - nonresinous wood of a fir tree cedarwood, cedar - durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests spruce - light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork hemlock - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock cypress - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus redwood - the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees sandarac, citronwood - durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) kauri - white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis yellowwood - yellow-colored wood of any of various yellowwood trees yew - wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows lancewood - durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools zebrawood - handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork shittimwood - wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew tabernacle bamboo - the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles tulipwood - the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees balsa, balsa wood - strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats obeche - the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering basswood, linden - soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork beefwood - any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork beechwood, beech - wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles chestnut - wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea oak - the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring birch - hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood alder - wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc hazel - the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) olive - hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork ash - strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats ironwood - exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees walnut - hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling hickory - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees pecan - wood of a pecan tree pyinma - relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous gumwood, gum - wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum eucalyptus - wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber |