wooded

1. 1
   adjective

   Covered with trees or having many trees growing on it.

   The trail wound through wooded slopes thick with oak and pine.

   Much of the region remains heavily wooded despite recent development.

   Similarwoody, woodsy, sylvan

   Oppositetreeless, bare

   Note

   A word for landscape rather than material. Middle English woded meant "concealed by trees," built from wood plus -ed, so a wooded place is one the trees cover and hide. It sits naturally with hills, slopes and valleys. It works before a noun (wooded hills) and after a verb (the lower reaches are wooded). Its usual intensifiers are thickly and heavily. Sylvan, woody and woodsy are its near synonyms.

2. 2
   adjective

   Of a wine or other drink, aged in wooden casks.

   The vintner offered both wooded and unwooded versions of the same wine.

   A heavily wooded red can develop notes of vanilla and spice.

   Similaroaked, oaky

   Oppositeunoaked

   Note

   Here the wood is the material, not the forest. It is the same wood + -ed formation as the tree-covered sense, but it points at the barrel. The word belongs to wine talk and marks a style: a wine is heavily or lightly wooded, and is often contrasted with unwooded. The casks are typically oak, which lends tannin and vanilla-like aromas.

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of wood.

   Note

   One regular form serves both past and participle, whether the wood in question is trees or fuel. Used transitively, it means planting land or stocking something with firewood (they wooded the boilers). Used intransitively, a boat or crew simply wooded, taking on a supply. The participle shades into the tree-covered adjective: land wooded long ago is now simply wooded.

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