Definitions
Woodland in leaf or fresh, unseasoned timber.
Word origin
From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasoned firewood”), equivalent to green + wood.
Used in a sentence
“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, […]”
“But Calipine, now being left alone / Under the greenewood’s ſide in ſorie plight, / Withouten armes or ſteede to ride upon, / Or houſe to hide his head from heaven’s ſpight, […]”
“We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Leafy grove”9 letters
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