woody

See also: Woody

English

Etymology

wood +‎ -y

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ʊdi
Homophone: woodie

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

Covered in woods; wooded.
(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.
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
(botany) Lignified.
the woody parts of a plant

Translations

covered in woods

Galician: boscoso m
German: bewaldet (de), waldig (de)
Hungarian: erdős (hu)
Italian: boscoso (it)

Latvian: mežains
Southern Altai: агашту (agaštu)
Spanish: boscoso (es)
Swedish: skogsbeklädd

non-herbaceous

Catalan: llenyós (ca)
Czech: dřevnatý
Finnish: puuvartinen (fi)
Galician: leñoso m
German: holzig

Hungarian: fás (hu), fás szárú
Irish: adhmadach
Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)
Spanish: leñoso (es)
Swedish: vedartad (sv)

lignified

Finnish: puu- (fi), puinen (fi)
Galician: leñoso m
German: verholzt (de)

Irish: adhmadach
Portuguese: lenhoso (pt)

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Irish: ^{(please verify)} adhmadach

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

Alternative form of woodie