greenwood

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹiːnwʊd/    美 /ˈɡɹinwʊd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A forest in full leaf, as in summer. countable,uncountable
    — Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]
  2. Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned. countable,uncountable
    — For the Spleene. 58 R. Aſhen keyes, and the Greenewood, burne them, & make Lye of the Aſhes: […]
  3. Certain half-shrubby species of genista. countable,uncountable

词形变化

greenwoods plural green-wood alternative greenewood alternative

词源

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