Meaning of WOODY
| Pronunciation: | | 'wûdee
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- [adj] made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
- [adj] abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway"
- [adj] made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"
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| | Synonyms: | | arboraceous, arboreous, ashen, aspen, bamboo, beechen, birch, birchen, birken, cedarn, deal, hard, ligneous, lignified, oak, oaken, suffrutescent, wood(a), wooded, wooden, woodsy |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonwoody | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Wood"y\, a.
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. ``The woody
wilderness.'' --Bryant.
Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] ``Woody nymphs,
fair Hamadryades.'' --Spenser.
{Woody fiber}. (Bot.)
(a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous
tubes tapering at each end.
(b) A single wood cell. See under {Wood}. --Goodale.
{Woody nightshade}. (Bot.). See {Bittersweet}, 3
(a) .
{Woody pear} (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit
of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus
{Xylomelum}; -- called also {wooden pear}.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Of or containing wood or wood fibers; consisting mainly of hard lignified tissues. |
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