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Webster 1913 Edition
Woody
Wood′y
,Adj.
1.
Abounding with wood or woods;
“The woody wilderness.” as,
. woody
landBryant.
Secret shades
Of
Of
woody
Ida’s inmost grove. Milton.
2.
Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous;
as, the
. woody
parts of plants3.
Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
[R.]
“Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades.” Spenser.
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
.Webster 1828 Edition
Woody
WOODY
,Adj.
1.
Abounding with wood; as woody land; a woody region.--Secret shades of woody Idas inmost grove.
2.
Consisting of wood; ligneous; as the woody parts of plants.3.
Pertaining to woods; sylvan; as woody nymphs.Definition 2024
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See also: Woody
English
Adjective
woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)
- Covered in woods; wooded.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
- Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
- (botany) Non-herbaceous.
- Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
- (botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".
Translations
covered in woods
non-herbaceous
Noun
woody (plural woodies)
- A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
- (vulgar, slang) An erection.
Translations
station wagon with a wooden exterior
erection — see erection