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  • 1Wood — /wood/, n. 1. Grant, 1892 1942, U.S. painter. 2. Leonard, 1860 1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator. * * * I Hard, fibrous material formed by the accumulation of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium. It is the… …

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  • 2wood — wood1 woodless, adj. /wood/, n. 1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other… …

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  • 3Engineered wood — This 1966 photo shows wood waste being burned for fuel in Portland, Oregon …

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  • 4Ramsay Wood — is a writer best known for his modernized compilation of the ancient animal fables derived from The Panchatantra . His Kalila and Dimna Selected Fables of Bidpai was published by Knopf in 1980 [See page 100, The Oxford Companion to English… …

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  • 5Sally Forth (Wally Wood) — Sally Forth is also the name of a later comic strip by Greg Howard .Sally Forth, a comic strip created by Wally Wood for a military male readership.Wood s sexy action adventure character, who is often seen nude, began as a recruit in a commando… …

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  • 6Fuel — For other uses, see Fuel (disambiguation). Wood was one of the first fuels used by humans and is still the primary energy source in much of the world.[citation needed] Fuel is any material that stores …

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  • 7angiosperm — /an jee euh sperrm /, n. Bot. a plant having its seeds enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant. Cf. gymnosperm. [ANGIO + SPERM] * * * ▪ plant Introduction       any member of the more than 300,000 species of flowering plants (division Anthophyta) …

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  • 8Collage — For other uses, see Collage (disambiguation). Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart A collage (From the French: coller, to glue, French pronunciation: [kɔ.laːʒ]) is a work of formal art, primarily in the vi …

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  • 9arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 10South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …

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