S: (n) material, stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object) "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
S: (n) substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists) "DNA is the substance of our genes"
S: (n) matter (that which has mass and occupies space) "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"
S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
S: (n) part, portion, component part, component, constituent (something determined in relation to something that includes it) "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
S: (n) poplar (soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar)
S: (n) sandalwood (close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork)
S: (n) boxwood, Turkish boxwood (very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks)
S: (n) maple (wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring)
S: (n) ebony (hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys)
S: (n) sycamore, lacewood (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)
S: (n) teak, teakwood (hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding)
S: (n) dogwood (hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood)
S: (n) sapwood (newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction)
S: (n) heartwood, duramen (the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood)
S: (n) burl (the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer)