English: topographic name for someone who lived in a dense
forest, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’,
or a habitational name from a minor place so named, as for example
Greenwood in Heathfield, East Sussex.English translation
of Ashkenazic Jewish Grünholz, an ornamental compound of
German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably of
German Grünwald (see Gruenwald).English translation of French Boisvert.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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