woody
pronunciation
How to pronounce woody in British English:
UK [ˈwʊdi]
How to pronounce woody in American English:
US [ˈwʊdi]
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- Adjective:
- made of or containing or resembling wood
- abounding in trees
- made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
Word Origin
- woody (adj.)
- late 14c., "overgrown with trees and shrubs," from wood (n.) + -y (2). Of plants, "having a stem of wood," from 1570s. Related: Woodiness. Old English had wudulic. As a name for a kind of station wagon with wood panels, by 1961, U.S. surfer slang (real wood exterior panels were rare after 1951 and the last use of real wood was in the 1953 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon). Slang meaning "erection" attested by 1990 (for hardness).
Example
- 1. No need for squalene or woody allen .
- 2. Molecular mechanism of seasonal dormancy in perennial woody plant .
- 3. European biofuels developers are buying large tracts of what they call " marginal land " in africa with the aim of cultivating biofuel crops , particularly the woody bush known as jatropha .
- 4. Each tuber weighs one to several pounds depending up on the cultivar type and feature gray-brown , rough woody textured skin .
- 5. Hemcrete is manufactured from locally-grown hemp ' shiv ' - the plant 's woody core - which is mixed with a lime-based binder to form a composite material which is carbon negative and has high thermal inertia .