Word Study
woody
CIDE DICTIONARY
woody, a.
- 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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
woody, adj. (woodier, woodiest)
1 (of a region) wooded; abounding in woods.
2 like or of wood (woody tissue).
1 (of a region) wooded; abounding in woods.
2 like or of wood (woody tissue).
Idiom
woody nightshade see NIGHTSHADE.
Derivative
woodiness n.
THESAURUS
woody
afforestational, arboreous, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy, dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, reforestational, scrubby, shrubby, silvicultural, sylvan, timbered, wooded, woodland, woodsyROGET 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.For further exploring for "woody" in Webster Dictionary Online