Wood (disambiguation)
From Freepedia
- Wood is a natural material (the Greek word for it is the root of the word matter) that is produced by the growth of plants, mainly trees and shrubs.
Hence, all that is made of this material :
- Wood (classical element) is one of the five Chinese elements (along water, fire, earth and metal).
- Wood (lawn bowls) alternative name for lawn bowls (equipment), being originally made of wood (plural - woods).
- Wood (golf club) alternative name for a golf club, being originally made of wood (plural - woods)
- in expressions such as 'to give wood', any wooden disciplinary implement (such as a cane or paddle).
- A wood is a small or middle-sized patch of forest, i.e. where wood is produced by plants.
Hence, various place names :
- Wood, South Dakota is a town in South Dakota.
- Wood, Wisconsin is a town in Wisconsin in the county of the same name.
- Wood County, Ohio is a county in Ohio.
- Wood County, Texas is a county in Texas.
- Wood County, West Virginia is a county in West Virginia.
- Wood County, Wisconsin is a county in Wisconsin, sharing the name Wood with its forementioned capital.
- WOOD are the call letters of a television station in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Wood (Wode, Woode or Wad) is also a surname, believed to have originated in Scotland from the surname de Bosco.
- Charles Wood was an Irish composer who lived in 1866 - 1926.
