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adjective

Woody adj.

Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." "Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove."

Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. (R.) "Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades."

Woody fiber. (Bot.)

(a)

Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end.

(b)

A single wood cell. See under Wood.

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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Etymology of 'Woody'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Woody" Quotes from Famous Books

... soft cellular tissue forming the central core of exogenous trees and plants. In the older parts of the tree the woody tissue often encroaches ...

— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... been intended to give a bowery effect to the room it hung; and one can imagine that it pleased the taste of the poet of the "Flower and the Leaf." It seems to have been much the fashion in England and elsewhere about that period, and generally represented landscapes and woody foregrounds only; but sometimes figures and animals were portrayed, and always in the same ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... biscuit, and by these means his life was prolonged. He made a bag of his shirt, bound a few things on his back, and buried others in the sand, to return to if necessary, and then continued to follow the shore northward, in search of some spring or stream. Fortunately, he soon came to a woody tract which promised water, and climbing a tree he watched the wild animals, hoping to discover where they drank; at length, following a flock of antelopes, he came suddenly upon the bank of a stream ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... days they continued their course in nearly a straight line for the missionary establishment. On the second evening, just about dusk, as they were crossing a woody hill, by the elephants' path, being then about 200 yards in advance of the wagons, they were saluted with one of the most hideous shrieks that could be conceived. Their horses started back; they could see nothing, although the ...

— The Mission • Frederick Marryat

... microscope. But the ribbed leaf bears itself to the wind, as the webbed foot of a bird does to the {45} water, and needs the same kind, though not the same strength, of support; and its ribs always are partly therefore constituted of strong woody substance, which is knit out of the tissue; and you can extricate this skeleton framework, and keep it, after the leaf-tissue is dissolved. So I shall henceforward speak simply of the leaf and its ribs,—only specifying the additional ...

— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

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