Woods

Woods  (wdz), Eldrick Known as "Tiger." Born 1975.

American golfer who became the first player to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles (1994-1996) and the youngest to win the Masters (1997).

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Woods, Lake of the

A lake of southwest Ontario and southeast Manitoba, Canada, and northern Minnesota. It is a popular fishing and resort area.

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woods [wʊdz]

pl n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) closely packed trees forming a forest or wood, esp a specific one

2. another word for backwoods [2]

3. (Music / Instruments) the woodwind instruments in an orchestra See also wood¹ [8]

(Social Science / Human Geography)

neck of the woods Informal an area or locality a quiet neck of the woods

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Woods¹

n

(Placename) Lake of the. See Lake of the Woods

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Woods²

n

(Biographies / Woods, Tiger (1975 M, US, SPORT AND GAMES: golfer) Tiger, real name Eldrick Woods. born 1975, US golfer: youngest US Masters champion (1997) and first Black golfer to win a major championship; in 2001 he became the only player to hold all four major titles at once

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

woods - the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area forest, wood botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" bosk - a small wooded area grove - a small growth of trees without underbrush jungle - an impenetrable equatorial forest rain forest, rainforest - a forest with heavy annual rainfall underbrush, undergrowth, underwood - the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms old growth, virgin forest - forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity second growth - a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting