woodchip

woodchip
/wood"chip'/, n.
1. a small chip of wood, esp. one that flakes off when felling a tree or splitting a log.
2. woodchips, chips of wood, esp. fir or other pine, used as a winter mulch on plants and shrubs.
[1955-60; WOOD1 + CHIP1]

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