English adjective: woody | |||
1. | woody made of or containing or resembling wood | ||
Samples | Woody plants. Perennial herbs with woody stems. A woody taste. | ||
Similar | ashen, beechen, birch, birchen, birken, cedarn, ligneous, oaken, suffrutescent, wooden | ||
Antonyms | nonwoody | ||
2. | woody abounding in trees | ||
Samples | An arboreous landscape. Violets in woodsy shady spots. A woody area near the highway. | ||
Synonyms | arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy | ||
Similar | wooded | ||
Antonyms | treeless, unwooded | ||
3. | woody made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls | ||
Similar | hard | ||
Antonyms | soft | ||