North Woods
Proper noun
Meaning
North Woods
The Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, a forested ecoregion in the United States and Canada.
Examples
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
Cook County/Lakeview Christian Academy winner at No. 2 North Woods (20-6), 7 p.m.
His mother, conservationist and Burt’s Bees co-founder Roxanne Quimby, purchased nearly 100,000 acres of former timberland in the North Woods and donated it to the federal government with the goal of making it a national park.
The bird irruption at my place west of Gilby, N.D., is of pine siskins, another nesting bird of the North Woods.
Maine game wardens go out in patrol boats in one of the first episodes of “North Woods Law.”