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noun

springwood.

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Origin of early wood

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby early wood

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise), early-type star, early warning, early-warning system, early wood, earmark, ear-minded, earmuff, earn, earned income

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How to use early wood in a sentence

When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
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At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.
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Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.
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Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.
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The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
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In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.
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Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
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He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.
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Scientific definitions for early wood

early wood

[ ûr′lē ]

The part of the wood in a growth ring of a tree that is produced earlier in the growing season. The cells of early wood are larger and have thinner walls than those produced later in the growing season. Compare late wood.