Noun

1. A forest in full leaf, as in summer.

   • Under the greenwood tree / Who loves to lie with me / And tune his merry note / Unto the sweet bird’s throat — / Come hither, come hither, come hither! / Here shall he see / No enemy / But winter and rough weather. — Shakespeare, "Under the Greenwood Tree".
   • 1819: “We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe