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

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

Why, one by one we've absorbed competitors at our own price till the Skandinavia stands head and shoulders above the world's groundwood industry.

From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell