Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or yielding wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yielding or producing wood.
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- adjective Yielding or producing
wood .
Etymologies
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Latin lignifer; lignum wood + ferre to bear: compare French lignifère.
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Examples
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It exhibits not only the general outline of the true club moss, but, like the fossil club mosses too, it wants that degree of ligniferous body in the rock which the coniferous fossils almost always possess.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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