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

3 senses of matchwood

Sense 1
matchwood, splinters -- (wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks")
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2
matchwood -- (wood suitable for making matchsticks)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 3
matchwood -- (fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood")
       => bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap -- (a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye")