Usually means: Wood splintered into small pieces.
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  1. matchwood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. matchwood: Merriam-Webster
  3. matchwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. matchwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. matchwood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. matchwood: Vocabulary.com
  7. matchwood: Wordnik
  8. matchwood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. matchwood: Wiktionary
  10. matchwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. matchwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. matchwood: Dictionary.com
  13. matchwood: Rhymezone
  14. matchwood: FreeDictionary.org
  15. matchwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. matchwood: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches

Similar:
splinters, flibbets, kindlewood, tinder, chatwood, firewood, kindling, woodmeal, lightwood, wood, more...

Opposite:
unbroken, intact, undamaged, whole

Types:
kindling, tinder, firewood, more...

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Similar:
splinters, flibbets, kindlewood, tinder, chatwood, firewood, kindling, woodmeal, lightwood, wood, more...

Opposite:
unbroken, intact, undamaged, whole

Types:
kindling, tinder, firewood, more...



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