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Meaning of WOODY

Pronunciation:  'wûdee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
  2. [adj]  abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway"
  3. [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
 
 Antonyms: nonwoody
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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
 
 Definition: Of or containing wood or wood fibers; consisting mainly of hard lignified tissues.
 
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