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woody |
Grep of noun woody woody allen woody guthrie woody herman woody nightshade woody pear woody plant Overview of adj woody The adj woody has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. woody -- (made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste") 2. arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody -- (abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway") 3. lignified, woody -- (made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls) Antonyms of adj woody 3 senses of woody Sense 1 woody (vs. nonwoody) nonwoody (vs. woody) => herbaceous => pulpy Sense 2 arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody INDIRECT (VIA wooded) -> unwooded, treeless Sense 3 lignified, woody INDIRECT (VIA hard) -> soft Similarity of adj woody 3 senses of woody Sense 1 woody (vs. nonwoody) => ashen => aspen => bamboo => beechen => birch, birchen, birken => deal => ligneous => oak, oaken => wooden, wood(postnominal) => cedarn => suffrutescent Sense 2 arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody => wooded (vs. unwooded) Sense 3 lignified, woody => hard (vs. soft) Attributes of adj woody Familiarity of adj woody woody used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj woody nonwoody woody Overview of adj woody The adj woody has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. woody -- (made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste") 2. arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody -- (abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway") 3. lignified, woody -- (made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls)
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