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woody

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

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ligneous

English

Alternative forms

  • lignous

Etymology

From lign- +? -ous; see also Latin lignosus.

Adjective

ligneous (comparative more ligneous, superlative most ligneous)

  1. Of, or resembling wood; woody.
  2. (botany) Containing lignin or xylem.

Translations

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