Wooded describes land that's covered with trees, like a forest or grove. A wooded area might be a hillside thick with oaks and maples, or a park where paths wind between tall pines. When explorers first arrived in North America, much of the eastern part of the continent was heavily wooded, with forests stretching for hundreds of miles.

The word helps distinguish between different types of landscape. A field is open and grassy, while a wooded field would have clusters of trees growing throughout it. A wooded valley has trees filling the low ground between hills. When someone says they live on a wooded lot, they mean their property has many trees, providing shade and privacy.

You might also see the word unwooded to describe land where trees have been cleared, though people more commonly say treeless or cleared. The number of trees matters too: lightly wooded land has scattered trees with space between them, while densely wooded land is packed with trees growing close together, their branches forming a canopy overhead.