wooded
C1Meanings
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adj
covered with growing trees and bushes etc
wooded land
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adj
Covered with trees.
All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
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3
adj
Aged in wooden casks.
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4
verb
simple past and past participle of wood
Etymology
From Middle English woded (“concealed by trees”), equivalent to wood + -ed.
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