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groundwood

American  
[ground-wood] / ˈgraʊndˌwʊd /

noun

Papermaking.
  1. wood that has been ground for making into pulp.


Etymology

Origin of groundwood

First recorded in 1915–20; ground 2 + wood 1

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Such treasures as China’s Great Wall, Egypt’s pyramids, and the groundwood and board mill in Verla, Finland, a relic of Northern European paper production, have made Unesco’s list.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2016

The mill has an annual production capacity of 238,000 tons of coated groundwood and 70,000 metric tons of thermo-mechanical pulp, Domtar said.

From Reuters Mar. 16, 2010

Domtar also announced the sale of its Choctaw, Saturn and Jupiter coated groundwood product lines and trademarks to NewPage Corp.

From Reuters Mar. 16, 2010

Its chief raw material, Canadian groundwood, requires huge amounts of power, which might be required for power-hungry aluminum mills instead.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was my dream to break the Skandinavian ring governing the groundwood trade of this country.

From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum

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