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Wood is an incredible, renewable resource for humankind. As it grows on trees, nature is the main manufacturer of all kinds of wood. Every tree is a small factory of wood without any waste which produces its own energy.

That is why wood is relatively cheap and eco-friendly material. It is an aesthetic material as well as strong and long-lasting. Wood is used to construct buildings, making paper, cooking meat and there may be other thousands of usages. Wood is one of the most useful and handy material in the world.

As a formal definition, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines wood as “The hard fibrous substance consisting basically of xylem that makes up the greater part of the stems, branches, and roots of trees or shrubs beneath the bark and is found to a limited extent in herbaceous plants”. Definition of Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a bit more scientific: “Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.” As a whole; wood is an organic material that has many distinct characteristics.