driftwood

English

Etymology

drift +‎ wood

Noun

driftwood (usually uncountable, plural driftwoods)

1. A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current.
2. Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore.

Translations

floating piece of wood

• Dutch: drijfhout (nl)
• Faroese: rekaviður m
• Finnish: ajopuu (fi)
• French: bois flotté (fr)
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• German: Treibholz (de) n
• Icelandic: rekaviður m
• Irish: adhmad raice m
• Maori: paewai
• Russian: плавник (ru) (plavnik)

wood that has been cast ashore

• Danish: drivtømmer n
• Faroese: rekaviður m
• Finnish: ajopuu (fi)
• French: bois flotté (fr)
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• German: Treibholz (de) n
• Irish: adhmad raice m
• Maori: paewai, tāwhaowhao, porotāwhao, punipuni, pakawai, pūwai
• Russian: плавник (ru) (plavnik)
• Welsh: gyrgoed

See also

• flotsam
• jetsam