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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
Noun
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Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began: There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Funga transplants fungi from healthy forests into commercial groves whose fungi are MIA and whose soil is nutrient-depleted from clear-cutting.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Preliminary post-fire assessments indicate that the effects of the fire within the groves were low to moderate, with some beneficial outcomes.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
Noun
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She’s squatted on her heels within a tight copse of five or six stones leaning like dolmens, chin on chest as if an engrossing thing lies between her feet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies.—
Jess Thomson,
Wired News,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In this era, ogival windows and flying buttresses would be more bracing than yet another thicket of computerized-looking shapes.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Now add an atmosphere — a thicket of gas molecules bound to the Earth by its gravitational pull.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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