Hypertext Webster Gateway: "greenwood"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.)
A leguminous plant ({Genista tinctoria}) of Europe and
Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also
{greenwood}, {greenweed}, {dyer's greenweed}, and {whin},
{wood-wash}, {wood-wax}, and {wood-waxen}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Greenwood \Green"wood`\, n.
A forest as it appears is spring and summer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Greenwood \Green"wood`\, a.
Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. --Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

greenwood
n : woodlands in full leaf; "the greenwood was Robin Hood's
home"


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