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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  woods
       n : the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
           [syn: {forest}, {wood}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "woods":
     English horn, Pandean pipe, afforestation, arboretum, aulos,
     back country, backwoods, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon,
     bombard, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush,
     bush country, bushveld, chase, clarinet, climax forest,
     cloud forest, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cromorne, dendrology,
     double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute,
     forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests,
     fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger,
     hautboy, heckelphone, hinterland, hornpipe, index forest, jungle,
     jungles, licorice stick, musette, national forest, oaten reed,
     oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens,
     panpipe, park, park forest, penny-whistle, piccolo, pine barrens,
     pipe, pommer, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest,
     recorder, reed, reed instrument, reforestation, sax, saxophone,
     scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shawm, shrubland, silviculture,
     single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sprout forest,
     stand of timber, state forest, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe,
     tenoroon, the bush, timber, timberland, timbers, tin-whistle,
     tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest,
     virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald, whistle,
     wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands,
     woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WOODS, A piece of land on which forest trees in great number naturally grow. 
  According to Lord Coke, a grant to another of omnes boscos suos, all his 
  woods, will pass not only all his trees, but the land on which they grow. 
  Co. Litt. 4 b. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Woods -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
     Population (2000):    9089
     Housing Units (2000): 4492
     Land area (2000):     1286.565852 sq. miles (3332.190118 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    3.508579 sq. miles (9.087177 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1290.074431 sq. miles (3341.277295 sq. km)
     Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
     Location:             36.745963 N, 98.752719 W
     Headwords:
      Woods
      Woods, OK
      Woods County
      Woods County, OK
  

















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