Synonyms:
woody
Meaning: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
Synonyms:
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody
Meaning: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway"
Synonyms:
woody
Meaning: made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"
Usage examples
The stems are rather stiff, because they are half woody at the base.
Four times ten days I have passed Wandering this woody maze, and human food Nor tasted, nor had appetite.
CONSTITUENTS OF THE APPLE.--All apples contain sugar, malic acid, or the acid of apples; mucilage, or gum; woody fibre, and water; together with some aroma, on which their peculiar flavour depends.
Tea, when chemically analyzed, is found to contain woody fibre, mucilage, a considerable quantity of the astringent principle, or tannin, a narcotic principle, which is, perhaps, connected with a peculiar aroma.
We pulled easily, by Silver's directions, not to weary the hands prematurely, and after quite a long passage, landed at the mouth of the second river--that which runs down a woody cleft of the Spy-glass. Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau.