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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. made of or containing or resembling wood;
- Example: "woody plants"
- Example: "perennial herbs with woody stems"
- Example: "a woody taste"

2. abounding in trees;
- Example: "an arboreous landscape"
- Example: "violets in woodsy shady spots"
- Example: "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;


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. [1913 Webster] Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants. [1913 Webster] 3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades." --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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