woody (redirected from woodies)

wood·y  (wd)

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 (wd) pl. wood·ies

1. A station wagon with exterior wood paneling.

2. Vulgar Slang An erection of the penis.

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woodi·ness n.

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woody [ˈwʊdɪ]

adj woodier, woodiest

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) abounding in or covered with forest or woods

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) connected with, belonging to, or situated in a wood

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) consisting of or containing wood or lignin woody tissue woody stems

4. resembling wood in hardness or texture

woodiness  n

Thesaurus

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

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

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

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

woody

adj (+er)

(= wooded) → waldig, bewaldet

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

woody [ˈwʊdɪ] adj (stem, plant) → ligneo/a