Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deadwood

2 senses of deadwood

Sense 1
deadwood -- (a branch or a part of a tree that is dead)
       => branch -- (a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant)

Sense 2
fifth wheel, deadwood -- (someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded)
       => redundancy, redundance -- (the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers")