different between woody vs forb

English

Etymology

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?di/
• Rhymes: -?di
• Homophone: woodie

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.
2. (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.

3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
4. (botany) Non-herbaceous.

5. (botany) Lignified.

Translations

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

1. Alternative form of woodie

See also

• wooden
• wooded

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (phorb?, “food”), from ????? (phérb?, “to feed”).

Noun

forb (plural forbs)

1. (chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).
   • 2002, Dale F. Lott, American Bison: A Natural History, page 122,

     So younger is better and the part nearest the roots is better, but what makes life possible for the pronghorn is a supply of forbs—small broadleaf plants growing among the grasses.

   • 2004, A. Kirilov, P. Todorova Development of forage areas and forage resources in Bulgaria during the period of transition, A. Lüscher, et al. (editors), Land Use Systems in Grassland Dominated Regions: Proceedings of the 20th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Grassland Science in Europe, Volume 9, page 859,

     Buchgraber (1995) recommends 50-70% of grasses, 10-30% of legumes and also 10-30% of forbs on meadows, while Kessler (1994) recommends the same proportion of grasses, 10-20% of legumes and 20-40% of forbs on natural meadows.

Anagrams

• frob