woody

Definition

Covered in woods; wooded.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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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