wildwood

Definition of wildwoodnext

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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. 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
  • Effortlessly stylish but wholly unpretentious, São Lourenço’s charming whitewashed buildings sit within vast stretches of organic vineyards, ancient olive groves, and wildflower meadows.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Director of Horticulture Joann Vieira walked through a grove where the damage was easy to see.
    Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
    Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Captured by the photographer Lee Jaffe in 1983, Basquiat wears a wide-brimmed hat against a blue summer sky, a copse of softly out-of-focus trees visible in the background.
    Laura May Todd, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The solution, Shive and Conway said, is removing many of the overgrown smaller trees that surround the giant sequoias in dense thickets, like white fir, red fir and incense cedar.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The oasis is packed with dense thickets of date palms and banana plantations.
    Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026

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“Wildwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildwood. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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