woodchip

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English

Woodchips, Eden, New South Wales

Alternative forms

• wood-chip
• wood chip

Noun

woodchip (plural woodchips)

1. A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0,5 to 10 cm by 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.

Derived terms

• woodchipper
• woodchipping

Translations

chip of wood

Finnish: lastu (fi), hake (fi) (chips as mass)

Hungarian: fűrészpor (hu)

fibre of wood

Finnish: puukuitu (fi) Hungarian: farost (hu)

Portuguese: farpa (pt) f.