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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Woody" Quotes from Famous Books

... grouped for picturesque effect, weedy, grass-grown, and satisfactory. The children acted as guides; they walked us along the top of the highest walls, then took us up into a high tower and showed us a wide and beautiful landscape, made up of wavy distances of woody hills, and a nearer prospect of undulating expanses of green lowlands, on the one hand, and castle-graced crags and ridges on the other, with the shining curves of the Neckar flowing between. But the principal show, the chief pride of the ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Elbow everything had been, as Preston said, seen a hundred times before. A little way beyond that everything became new. Mrs. Randolph's carriage never came that road. The country grew more rough and broken, and the hills in their woody dress shewed more ...

— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner

... chemical decomposition within the pores it acts as a preservative agent in a greater or less degree. The vegetable colouring matters do not penetrate so easily, probably on account of the affinity of the woody fibre for the colouring matter, whereby the whole of the latter is taken up by the parts of the wood with which it first comes into contact. Different intermediate shades, in great variety, may be obtained ...

— French Polishing and Enamelling - A Practical Work of Instruction • Richard Bitmead

... Soon Pan was riding down into the swale where Blake lived. The cottonwoods were almost bare. Only a few yellow leaves clung to the branches, and every moment a leaf fluttered down. Here in this swale Pan caught the autumn smells, dank and woody. ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

... water for short distances, or for storing it in camp, may be made of the bark of a tree, either taken off in an entire cylinder, and having a bottom fitted on, or else of a knot or excrescence that has been cut off the outside of a tree, and its woody interior scooped out; or of birth bark sewed or pegged at the corners, and having its seams coated with the gum or resin of the pine-tree. Baskets with oiled cloth inside, make efficient water-vessels; they are in use ...

— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

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