1.
2.
[syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody]
3. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Woody \Wood"y\, a.
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody
wilderness." --Bryant.
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Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
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2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
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3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs,
fair Hamadryades." --Spenser.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
woody
adj 1: made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants";
"perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste" [ant:
nonwoody]
2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in
woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn:
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody]
3: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin
in the cell walls
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "woody":
afforestational, arboreous, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy,
dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, reforestational, scrubby,
shrubby, silvicultural, sylvan, timbered, wooded, woodland,
woodsy