Category:Woody

Wood"y, a.

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.