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Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

ush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.

issue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. cellular telephone, a portable radio- telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal conta…

t or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

ling or combing. Earth flax (Min.), amianthus. -- Flax brake, a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous. -- Flax comb, a hatchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning li…

A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill.

A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] Drayton.