(fine wood shavings)

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• wood wool — noun Fine wood shavings • • • Main Entry: ↑wood * * * wood wool, fine shavings made from pine wood, used as a surgical dressing, in plaster, and as an insulating material: »The roof construction has been changed to slabs of wood wool in place of… …   Useful english dictionary

• wood-wool — /wood wool /, n. fine wood shavings, usually of pine, or chemically treated wood fibers: used for surgical dressings, as an insulating material, as a binder in plaster, for packing breakable objects, etc. [1550 60] * * * …   Universalium

• wood-wool — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : fine wood shavings or prepared wood fibers used for surgical dressings, as a substitute for hair in plaster, and as a packing and insulating material * * * /wood wool /, n. fine wood shavings, usually of pine, or chemically… …   Useful english dictionary

• wood wool — n. long and fine wood shavings; wood fibre which is not compressed and prepared in a special manner for surgical dressings …   English contemporary dictionary

• wood wool — noun Brit. a mass of fine, soft wood shavings, used as a packing material …   English new terms dictionary

• Wood — /wood/, n. 1. Grant, 1892 1942, U.S. painter. 2. Leonard, 1860 1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator. * * * I Hard, fibrous material formed by the accumulation of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium. It is the… …   Universalium

• wood — wood1 woodless, adj. /wood/, n. 1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other… …   Universalium

• Wood — n. 1 a a hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub. b this cut for timber or for fuel, or for use in crafts, manufacture, etc. 2 (in sing. or pl.) growing trees densely occupying a tract of… …   Useful english dictionary

• wood — n. 1 a a hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub. b this cut for timber or for fuel, or for use in crafts, manufacture, etc. 2 (in sing. or pl.) growing trees densely occupying a tract of… …   Useful english dictionary

• La Cotte de St Brelade — is a Paleolithic site of early habitation in St Brelade, Jersey. Cotte means cave in Jèrriais; the cave is also known as Lé Creux ès Fées . [ Dictionnaire Jersiais Français , Le Maistre 1966] Neanderthal man once lived here around 250,000 years… …   Wikipedia

• woodwool — n. long and fine wood shavings; not compressed wood fibre prepared in a special manner for surgical dressings …   English contemporary dictionary