woody
1Origin of woody
1Other words from woody
- wood·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby woody
Other definitions for woody (2 of 4)
or wood·ie
Slang. a station wagon having wood or simulated-wood panels on the outside of the body.
Slang: Vulgar. an erection of the penis.
Origin of woody
2Other definitions for woody (3 of 4)
Other definitions for Woody (4 of 4)
a male given name, form of Woodrow.
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How to use woody in a sentence
That twisting action is due to how the pods’ woody fibers line up at the microscopic level.
No trees were harmed to 3-D print this piece of wood | Katie Grace Carpenter | September 23, 2022 | Science News For StudentsGrasses and other plants in nonforest ecosystems would need to expend just over 1 percent of their energy stores, largely because such plants are far shorter and have less resistance to the flow of sap within their tissues than woody plants do.
The worldwide water-lifting power of plants is enormous | Sid Perkins | September 6, 2022 | Science NewsThere’s no species called a “bonsai tree” — the word literally means “tree in a pot,” and virtually any woody tree or shrub can be trained as a bonsai.
woody said she has learned of disruptions of other Zoom events in a similar way that are being referred to as “Zoom bombing” incidents.
D.C.’s Mary’s House event disrupted by ‘Zoom bombing’ | Lou Chibbaro Jr. | March 24, 2021 | Washington Bladewoody said 60 people from across the country registered for the event, but only about 39 people signed on to the Zoom site when the hacker began to disrupt the event.
D.C.’s Mary’s House event disrupted by ‘Zoom bombing’ | Lou Chibbaro Jr. | March 24, 2021 | Washington Blade
So with woody, his first 3-5 films will be your favorites, or your first 3-5 Sam Shepard plays will be your favorites.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI would have never predicted when I saw Cheers that woody Harrelson was going to be one of the great actors of this generation.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWally said, “One day, woody Allen will pass, and people will wonder if he really lived.”
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTwoody Allen once remarked that 80 or 90 % of life was just showing up.
Why We Should Delay The Israel-Palestinian Peace Process | Aaron David Miller | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Willie Watson is a throwback to the days of woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan.
Grant's Island is higher than the others, which are merely small woody islets, the centre is in 11 degrees 10 minutes.
The fruit consists of radiating, somewhat woody fibres, terminating in a tuberculated and slightly papillose surface.
The woody hollow of Cowan's Bridge was foggy, unwholesome, damp.
Emily Bront | A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) RobinsonThey then put forth new leaves and flowers, and after sixteen or eighteen months they become slightly woody.
This is largely due to the fact that plant cells have woody walls that the digestive juices cannot act upon.
A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
British Dictionary definitions for woody
/ (ˈwʊdɪ) /
abounding in or covered with forest or woods
connected with, belonging to, or situated in a wood
consisting of or containing wood or lignin: woody tissue; woody stems
resembling wood in hardness or texture
Derived forms of woody
- woodiness, noun
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