groundwood

American  

[ground-wood] / ˈgraʊndˌwʊd /

noun

Papermaking.

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

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Etymology

Origin of groundwood

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

You've simply got to see the thing that's going to make the whole world's groundwood trade holler before we're through.

From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell