woodchip

See also: wood-chip and wood chip

English

Woodchips, Eden, New South Wales

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Etymology

From wood + chip.

Noun

woodchip (countable and uncountable, plural woodchips)

  1. A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
  2. A small fibre of wood; especially such material as used to make ingrain wallpaper, aka woodchip wallpaper. See Wikipedia article on ingrain wallpaper.

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