woodchip

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noun

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.

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Meanings

nounwoodchip (countable and uncountable, plural woodchips)

plural woodchips · alternative wood-chip · alternative wood chip

  1. countableuncountableA 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. countableuncountableA small fibre of wood; especially such material as used to make ingrain wallpaper, aka woodchip wallpaper.

    Oh, Deborah, do you recall? / Your house was very small / With woodchip on the wall

    1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
ingrain wallpaper

Origin

From wood + chip.

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Translations

Dutch spaan, spaander
  • spaanchip of wood
  • spaanderchip of wood
Finnish puukuitu, lastu
  • puukuitufibre of wood
  • lastuchip of wood
  • hakechip of wood
French copeau de bois
  • copeau de boischip of wood
German Holzfaser, Holzschnitzel
  • Holzfaserfibre of wood
  • Holzschnitzelchip of wood
  • Holzhackschnitzelchip of wood
  • Holzspanchip of wood
Hungarian farost, fűrészpor
  • farostfibre of wood
  • fűrészporchip of wood
Māori kūkā
  • kūkāchip of wood
Polish zrębek, zrębek
  • zrębekfibre of wood
  • zrębekchip of wood
Portuguese farpa
  • farpafibre of wood
Spanish fragmento de madera, trozo de madera
  • fragmento de maderachip of wood
  • trozo de maderachip of wood
Swedish träflisa
  • träflisachip of wood
Turkish yonga
  • yongachip of wood
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APA

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MLA

“woodchip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woodchip. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “woodchip,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woodchip.

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