WOODY


Meaning of WOODY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Compare for example the dry woody flavour of a chardonnay with the sweet flowery taste of a Gewürztraminer.

In the region as seen from the small plane, in my case the mountains and woody uplands of the Northeast?

Most of the vines looked lifeless, their leaves drooping from the woody stems and curling into cylinders.

So-called humic coals have a known gas potential inherited from their high proportion of woody organic matter.

Termites are necessary to decompose old woody vegetation, but they were fond of eating the sealant around the windows.

The overall tone is warm and woody - hardly surprising when you consider the sheer mass of wood involved!

Water reed is also much harder wearing, being woody in character, and so requires no clipping.

When the weather gets warm, they become hard, woody , prickly bushes which crowd out other vegetation.

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