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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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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 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

Translations

كالخَشَبمُغَطَّى بالأشْجار

skovklædttræagtig

holzig waldig

puupuuvartinen

fás

skógi vaxinnviîar-

boscoso legnoso ligneo

skogrik treaktig vedaktig

drevitýdrevnatýlesnatý

ağaçlıkodunsuodunumsu

木头味树木茂密的

woody

[ˈwʊdɪ] ADJ (woodier (compar) (woodiest (superl)))

1. [plant, stem, texture] → leñoso; [odour] → a madera

2. (= wooded) [countryside] → lleno de bosque

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woody

adj (+er)

(= wooded) → waldig, bewaldet

(= like wood in texture) tissue → holzig; woody paper → holzhaltiges Papier

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woody

[ˈwʊdɪ] adj (stem, plant) → ligneo/a

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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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Their rocky recesses and beetling cliffs afforded retreats to innumerable flocks of the bighorn, while their woody summits and ravines abounded with bears and black-tailed deer.

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But when the goddesses had brought him up, a god oft hymned, then began he to wander continually through the woody coombes, thickly wreathed with ivy and laurel.

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High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody. The village of Barton was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows.

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Four times ten days I have passed Wandering this woody maze, and human food Nor tasted, nor had appetite.

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``The castle is large, the outer walls standing on a pleasant ascent from the river, but much overtopt by a high hill, on which the town stands, situated at the head of a rich and magnificent vale, formed by an amphitheatre of woody hills, in which flows the gentle Don.

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I only saw the woody mountains against the horizon, because Captain Nemo did not wish to bring the ship to the wind.

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Its windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.

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He knows I have no one but Rachel to speak to, for we have no neighbours here, except the Hargraves, whose residence I can dimly descry from these upper windows embosomed among those low, woody hills beyond the Dale.

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All by his own request, also, biscuits were then ranged round the sides within: a flask of fresh water was placed at the head, and a small bag of woody earth scraped up in the hold at the foot; and a piece of sail-cloth being rolled up for a pillow, Queequeg now entreated to be lifted into his final bed, that he might make trial of its comforts, if any it had.

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Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground.

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Be all this as it may: the course of our party of bee hunters is to make a wide circuit through the woody river bottoms, and the patches of forest on the prairies, marking, as they go out, every tree in which they have detected a hive.

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On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees.

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