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woody

  • adjective
  • /ˈwʊdi/

Covered in woods; wooded.

Other meanings

  1. Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.

  2. Non-herbaceous.

    “Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.”

Word history

From Middle English "woodi".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “woody” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.