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wood·y

 (wo͝od′ē)
adj. wood·i·er, wood·i·est
1. Forming or consisting of wood; ligneous: woody tissue.
2. Marked by the presence of wood or xylem: woody plants.
3. Characteristic or suggestive of wood: a woody smell.
4. Abounding in trees; wooded.
n. also wood·ie (wo͝od′ē) pl. wood·ies
1. A station wagon with exterior wood paneling.
2. Vulgar Slang An erection of the penis.
wood′i·ness n.
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woody

(ˈwʊdɪ)
adj, woodier or woodiest
1. (Forestry) abounding in or covered with forest or woods
2. (Forestry) connected with, belonging to, or situated in a wood
3. (Botany) consisting of or containing wood or lignin: woody tissue; woody stems.
4. resembling wood in hardness or texture
ˈwoodiness n
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wood•y1

(ˈwʊd i)

adj. wood•i•er, wood•i•est.
1. abounding with woods; wooded.
2. belonging or pertaining to the woods; sylvan.
3. consisting of or containing wood; ligneous.
4. resembling wood, as in appearance, texture, or toughness: a woody vegetable.
[1325–75; Middle English wodi; see wood1, -y1]
wood′i•ness, n.

wood•y2

or wood•ie

(ˈwʊd i)

n., pl. wood•ies. Informal.
a station wagon having wood panels on the outside of the body.
[1960–65]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.woody - made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"
nonwoody - not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood
2.woody - abounding in treeswoody - abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway"
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy
wooded - covered with growing trees and bushes etc; "wooded land"; "a heavily wooded tract"
3.woody - made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
hard - resisting weight or pressure
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Translations
كالخَشَبمُغَطَّى بالأشْجار
skovklædttræagtig
puupuuvartinen
fás
skógi vaxinnviîar-
drevitýdrevnatýlesnatý
ağaçlıkodunsuodunumsu

woody

[ˈwʊdɪ] ADJ (woodier (compar) (woodiest (superl)))
1. [plant, stem, texture] → leñoso; [odour] → a madera
2. (= wooded) [countryside] → lleno de bosque
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

woody

adj (+er)
(= wooded) → waldig, bewaldet
(= like wood in texture) tissue → holzig; woody paper → holzhaltiges Papier
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

woody

[ˈwʊdɪ] adj (stem, plant) → ligneo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wood

(wud) noun
1. (also adjective) (of) the material of which the trunk and branches of trees are composed. My desk is (made of) wood; She gathered some wood for the fire; I like the smell of a wood fire.
2. (often in plural) a group of growing trees. They went for a walk in the woods.
3. a golf-club whose head is made of wood.
ˈwooded adjective
(of land) covered with trees. a wooded hillside.
ˈwooden adjective
made of wood. three wooden chairs.
ˈwoody adjective
1. covered with trees. woody countryside.
2. (of a smell etc) of or like wood.
ˈwood carving noun
the art of carving wood.
ˈwoodcut noun
a print made by pressing a block of wood with design cut on it onto paper.
ˈwoodcutter noun
a person whose job is felling trees.
ˈwoodland noun
land covered with woods. a stretch of woodland.
ˈwoodlouse – plural ˈwoodlice – noun
a tiny creature with a jointed shell, found under stones etc.
ˈwoodpecker noun
a type of bird which pecks holes in the bark of trees, searching for insects.
ˈwood pulp noun
pulp from wood that can be used for making paper.
ˈwoodwind (-wind) noun
(in an orchestra, the group of people who play) wind instruments made of wood.
ˈwoodwork noun
1. the art of making things from wood; carpentry. He did woodwork at school.
2. the wooden part of any structure. The woodwork in the house is rotting.
ˈwoodworm – plurals ˈwoodworm, ~woodworms – noun
the larva of a certain type of beetle, which bores into wood and destroys it.
out of the wood(s)
out of danger.
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