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Wood

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–noun
1. Grant, 1892–1942, U.S. painter.
2. Leonard, 1860–1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator.
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Grant Wood
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Wood   (wŏŏd)   
American artist noted for his paintings based on life in the Midwest, especially American Gothic (1930).
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Slang Dictionary
peckerwood

and wood
  1. n.
    a poor white person. (Very old southern term for a woodpecker.) : What's that peckerwood want in this hood?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

wood  (adj.)
"violently insane" (now obsolete), from O.E. wod "mad, frenzied," from P.Gmc. *woth- (cf. Goth. woþs "possessed, mad," O.H.G. wuot "mad, madness," Ger. wut "rage, fury"), from PIE *wat-, source of L. vates "seer, poet," O.Ir. faith "poet;" "with a common element of mental excitement." [Buck] Cf. O.E. woþ "sound, melody, song," and O.N. oðr "poetry," and the god-name Odin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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wood   (wd)  Pronunciation Key 
The thick xylem of trees and shrubs, resulting from secondary growth by the vascular cambium, which produces new layers of living xylem. The accumulated living xylem is the sapwood. The older, dead xylem in the interior of the tree forms the heartwood. Often each cycle of growth of new wood is evident as a growth ring. The main components of wood are cellulose and lignin.

woody adjective
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