Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Forming or consisting of wood; ligneous.
- adjective Marked by the presence of wood or xylem.
- adjective Characteristic or suggestive of wood.
- adjective Abounding in trees; wooded.
- noun A station wagon with exterior wood paneling.
- noun Vulgar Slang An erection of the penis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with wood; wooded: as, woody land; a woody region.
- Pertaining or belonging to the woods; dwelling or situated in the woods; peculiar to a wood or forest; sylvan; woodland; woodsy.
- Consisting of or containing wood; ligneous: as, the woody parts of plants.
- Peculiar to or characteristic of wood: as, a woody scent or flavor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with wood or woods.
- adjective Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
- adjective (Bot.) A single wood cell. See under
Wood . - adjective (Bot.) See
Bittersweet , 3 (a). - adjective (Bot.) the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; -- called also
wooden pear .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered in
woods ;wooded . - adjective obsolete Belonging to the woods;
sylvan . - adjective Made of
wood , or having wood-like properties. - adjective botany
Non -herbaceous . - adjective botany
Lignified : "the woody parts of a plant". - noun A
station wagon that has aretro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern Californiasurfing culture. - noun informal an erection.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
- adjective made of or containing or resembling wood
- adjective abounding in trees
Etymologies
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Examples
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The stem, while woody, is thin enough that I think in the spring when it goes back outside, I can stake it up so that it has a mini-standard form.
Can you smell that heliotrope? « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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This looks good. mangoshakes woody is da man. slash i'm hoping the first time he fights elias, elias kicks his butt and runs away leaving defendor to scream "DAAAAAAAMN"
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Found in woody areas, this pitcher-shaped wild flower develops a stalk with a cluster of seeds at the top.
Berries and Seeds 2010
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My personal big woody is how medical advances over the next century will becme what we would consider today to be absolute magic.
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October 31, 2008 at 11: 35 AM try again woody, that's Wolf's wife, doing what everyone should have done .... walking away.
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May 27th, 2008 4: 58 pm ET and "creative woody" is an idiot. "2025 is what is needed in January".
Blitzer: Could the DNC move the goalposts this weekend? 2008
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His best trick was to go after a bug on the end of a thin woody vine dangling from a locust tree.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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His best trick was to go after a bug on the end of a thin woody vine dangling from a locust tree.
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The yellow guy's woody is not letting you get through.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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BILL: A short, square shape protects a bait's hooks from snags in woody cover.
slumry commented on the word woody
In contrast to herbaceous.
July 13, 2007
Dan337 commented on the word woody
See also tinny and gorn.
February 21, 2011