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Word entry · 5 letters

woody

Best crossword clue

"Like wood"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈwʊdi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted doowyStarts with WEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

Word origin

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […].
  • with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
  • Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.

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