woody

See also: Woody

English

Etymology

wood +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdi/
• Rhymes: -ʊdi
• Homophone: woodie

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.

3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
4. (botany) Non-herbaceous.

   Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.

5. (botany) Lignified.

   the woody parts of a plant

Translations

covered in woods

• Galician: boscoso
• German: bewaldet (de), waldig (de)
• Hungarian: erdős (hu)
• Italian: boscoso (it)
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• Latvian: mežains
• Polish: lesisty (pl)
• Southern Altai: агашту (agaštu)
• Spanish: boscoso (es)
• Swedish: skogsbeklädd

non-herbaceous

• Catalan: llenyós (ca)
• Czech: dřevnatý
• Finnish: puuvartinen (fi)
• Galician: leñoso
• German: holzig
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• Hungarian: fás (hu), fás szárú
• Irish: adhmadach
• Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)
• Spanish: leñoso (es)
• Swedish: vedartad (sv)

lignified

• Finnish: puu- (fi), puinen (fi)
• Galician: leñoso
• German: verholzt (de)
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• Irish: adhmadach
• Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)

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Noun

woody (plural woodies)

1. Alternative form of woodie

See also

• wooden
• wooded