Thesaurus: woody

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1. a. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
2. a. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
3. a. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
4. adj. made of or containing or resembling wood
5. adj. abounding in trees
6. adj. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
7. 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.
8. j:100 a. made of or containing or resembling wood s. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls