Woody

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Woody \Wood"y\, a.
     1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody
        wilderness." --Bryant.
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              Secret shades


              Of woody Ida's inmost grove.          --Milton.
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     2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
        ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
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     3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs,
        fair Hamadryades." --Spenser.
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     {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "woody":
     afforestational, arboreous, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy,
     dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, reforestational, scrubby,
     shrubby, silvicultural, sylvan, timbered, wooded, woodland,
     woodsy
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Woody, CA
    Zip code(s): 93287