 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
woody
adjective
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Woody \Wood"y\, adjective
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. ''The woody
wilderness.'' --Bryant.
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.'' --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}.
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
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