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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compare for example the dry woody flavour of a chardonnay with the sweet flowery taste of a Gewürztraminer.
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In the region as seen from the small plane, in my case the mountains and woody uplands of the Northeast?
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Most of the vines looked lifeless, their leaves drooping from the woody stems and curling into cylinders.
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So-called humic coals have a known gas potential inherited from their high proportion of woody organic matter.
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Termites are necessary to decompose old woody vegetation, but they were fond of eating the sealant around the windows.
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The overall tone is warm and woody - hardly surprising when you consider the sheer mass of wood involved!
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Water reed is also much harder wearing, being woody in character, and so requires no clipping.
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When the weather gets warm, they become hard, woody , prickly bushes which crowd out other vegetation.