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.
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