Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. Bryant. [1913 Webster]
"Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove." [1913 Webster]
Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants. [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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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OXFORD DICTIONARY

woody, adj. (woodier, woodiest)
1 (of a region) wooded; abounding in woods.
2 like or of wood (woody tissue).

Idiom

woody nightshade see NIGHTSHADE.

Derivative

woodiness n.

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THESAURUS

woody

afforestational, arboreous, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy, dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, reforestational, scrubby, shrubby, silvicultural, sylvan, timbered, wooded, woodland, woodsy

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ROGET THESAURUS

woody

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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