greenwood

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Noun
  • Groundbreaking took place in July 1954 on a 160-acre orange grove in Anaheim about 22 miles south of Los Angeles.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 July 2025
  • Silvery green olive groves produce the oil that’s served in the hotel’s three restaurants.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words.
    Jamie Malanowski, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
  • In early January, Nadia emerges from the last thicket.
    Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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