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Recent Examples of wildwood
Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began:
There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.
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Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildwood
Noun
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The Spa Step into the thick of the rainforest’s groves at Sugar Beach’s Rainforest Spa.—
Nneka M. Okona,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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The land, which is home to herds of pronghorn antelope, mountain lions, wolves, mule deer and groves of aspen trees, was originally planned for geothermal development when Santa Clara city leaders bought it nearly 50 years ago.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Except for two copses of skyscrapers in which our financiers—and finances—go up and down, London remains a fairly horizontal city.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This wonderful, hardy, and disease-resistant tree gradually develops into a beautiful understory thicket, providing habitat for wildlife.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
21 Jan. 2026
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The plant in question actually consists of 70 Jurupa oak (Quercus palmeri) stem clusters, only three feet tall, that stand together as a flowering, non-acorn producing clonal colony in the form of a thicket, 82 feet long by 26 feet wide, estimated to be at least 13,000 years old.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Wildwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildwood. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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