woody /ˈwʊdi/
(a.)多樹木的,木質的,森林的
Wood·y a.
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. “The woody wilderness.”
Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
3. 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. --Goodale.
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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woody
adj 1: made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants";
"perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"
[ant: nonwoody]
2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in
woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn:
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy]
3: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of
lignin in the cell walls [syn: lignified]
[also: woodiest, woodier]