woodly

comparative more woodly · superlative most woodly

1. datedCovered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.

   It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.

   2020, United States Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives

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   So saying, by the hand he took me raised, And over fields and waters, as in air, Smooth sliding without step, last led me up A woodly mountain; whose high top was plain, A circuit wide enclosed, with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers;

   1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

   Argonne, a woodly tract in France, partly in Upper Champagne, and partly in the Lower Barrois.

   1827, The Edinburgh Gazetteer, page 243

   SHALEFLEET. The name was probably derived from shaw, a woodly glen, and fleet, a running stream .

   1945, Margaret Birney Pittis, Pittis Genealogy, page 25

2. Having tough, woody stems; woody.

   These are Sarracenia rubra which occurs in bogs and savannahs and Schisandra glabra a woodly vine found in rich woods .

   1976, Port Royal Harbor Maintenance Dredging, page 13

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   Cuttings of bedding plants may nnow be made freely if wanted for next season, as young cuttings rooted in the fall make soft-wooded plants as pelargoniums, fuchsias, verbenas, heliotropes, &c.' with roses and plants of a woodly nature, however , the old plants usually do best.

   1910, The Encyclopedia Britannica, page 781

   In some regions of the African continent and South America, cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is a woodly shrub, is consumed boiled or fermented (Fossi and Ndjouenkeu, 2017).

   2021, Mohammed Kuddus, Microbial Extremozymes, page 156

comparative more woodly · superlative most woodly

1. obsoleteMadly; furiously.