Nature and science
Trees and Timber
Ten trees, and the wood that comes from them.
- Teens and up
- Confident · B2
- 10 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- cherry
- a small round red fruit with a stone inside
- bamboo
- a tall grass with hard hollow stems
- acacia
- a thorny tree with small yellow flowers
- ash
- the grey powder left after something burns
- fir
- an evergreen tree with needles and cones
- mahogany
- a hard reddish-brown wood used for furniture
- maple
- a tree with broad leaves that turn red in autumn
- beech
- a tall tree with smooth grey bark and small nuts
- birch
- a tree with thin peeling white bark
- cedar
- an evergreen tree with sweet-smelling reddish wood
