A product of hard secondary xylem composed of CELLULOSE, hemicellulose, and LIGNANS, that is under the bark of trees and shrubs. It is used in construction and as a source of CHARCOAL and many other products.
    

concept

Sections of wood from the stem of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Coloured aquatint by G. Carocci, 1839, after D. del Rè, 1833.

Trunk and roots of a pine tree cut to show growth rings; microscopic views of wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and of a root tip. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from down river, with a multitude of ships and rowing boats on the right. Engraving by G. Cooke, after A. W. Callcott, 1827.

A donkey carrying wood through a snowy landscape; representing January. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.

People collecting wood in the snow; representing winter. Etching by N. Perelle, 17th century.

De physiologia humana

Martigegni, Giovanni

Antiques of the pharmacy. Part 3, Wooden objects: pharmacy in print / Leslie G. Matthews.

Letters between Doctor Wood a Roman Catholick, the Pretender's physician, and Whitelocke Bulstrode, Esq; a member of the Church of England, touching the true Church, and whether there is salvation out of the Roman communion. Of the Reformation from the Er

Letters between Doctor Wood a Roman Catholick, the Pretender's physician, and Whitelocke Bulstrode, Esq: a member of the Church of England, touching the true Church, and whether there is salvation out of the Roman communion. Of the Reformation from the Er

Wood

Images

Catalogue

Letters between Doctor Wood a Roman Catholick, the Pretender's physician, and Whitelocke Bulstrode, Esq; a member of the Church of England, touching the true Church, and whether there is salvation out of the Roman communion. Of the Reformation from the Er

Letters between Doctor Wood a Roman Catholick, the Pretender's physician, and Whitelocke Bulstrode, Esq: a member of the Church of England, touching the true Church, and whether there is salvation out of the Roman communion. Of the Reformation from the Er