Vocabulary : Wood partridge to Woodcracker

Wood partridge : Any of several small partridges of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and neighboring regions belonging to the genera Caloperdix, Rollulus, and Melanoperdix. ;; The Canada grouse.
Wood tick : Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.
Woodbind : Woodbine.
Woodbine : A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. ;; The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.
Wood-bound : Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

Woodbury-type : A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. ;; A print from such a plate.
Woodchat : Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath. ;; A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
Woodchuck : A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog. ;; The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
Woodcock : Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. ;; Fig.: A simpleton.
Woodcracker : The nuthatch.

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