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 | ||