woods

Etymology

noun

1. plural of wood

noun

1. (usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
   These woods are part of the Campbell property.
   This woods is part of the Campbell property. (uncommon)
   The woods are lovely, dark and deep 1923, Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
   Where protection is not considered essential, the logical places for establishing a woods are on those portions of the farm which have steep slopes […]. 1939, C. R. Tillotson, The Care and Improvement of the Farm Woods (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1177), page 18
   Night after night, we both had similar dreams that our daughter was wandering around in a woods. 2009, James Preston Hardison, Miracles on the Poke-A-No, page 159
   It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods. 2013, Robert McGowan, Current: Essays on the Passing of Time in the Woods, page 20
2. (military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wood