What is "woody" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does woody mean in English? Meaning of woody definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "woody" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "woody": made of or containing or resembling wood

Adjective

  • Meaning: made of or containing or resembling wood
  • Example: woody plants perennial herbs with woody stems a woody taste
  • Synonyms: woody
  • Antonyms: nonwoody
  • Similar: ashen beechen birch birchen birken cedarn ligneous oaken suffrutescent wooden
  • Meaning of "woody": abounding in trees

    Adjective

  • Meaning: abounding in trees
  • Example: an arboreous landscape violets in woodsy shady spots a woody area near the highway
  • Synonyms: arboraceous arboreous woodsy woody
  • Similar: wooded
  • Meaning of "woody": made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

    Adjective

  • Meaning: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
  • Synonyms: woody
  • Similar: hard
  • Adjective: Covered in woods; wooded.(obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii: with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii: with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.(botany) Non-herbaceous. Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.(botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".
  • Synonyms:

    sylvan, wooded, wooden, arboraceous, ligneous, xyloid,

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    woody in English: woody
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