wood spirit

English

Noun

wood spirit (countable and uncountable, plural wood spirits)

1. (countable) A dryad or other spiritual being associated with forests, woods, or trees.
2. (uncountable, often the wood spirit) Methanol, a type of alcohol.

Synonyms

• (spiritual being): dryad
• (alcohol): methanol, methol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirits, carbinol

Translations

spiritual being

• Burmese: ရုက္ခစိုး (my) (rukhka.cui:)
• Dutch: bosgeest (nl) m, woudgeest m
• Finnish: metsänhenki
• French: esprit de bois (fr) m

methanol — see wood alcohol