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