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lignified


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lignify  \Lig"ni*fy\  (-f[imac]),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Lignified} 
  (-f[imac]d);  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Lignifying}  (-f[imac]`[i^]ng).] 
  [L.  lignum  wood  +  -fy:  cf  F.  lignifier.]  (Bot.) 
  To  convert  into  wood  or  into  a  ligneous  substance. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lignified 
  adj  :  made  hard  like  wood  as  the  result  of  the  deposition  of 
  lignin  in  the  cell  walls  [syn:  {woody}] 




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