Wood"y (?), a. 1.
Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The
woody wilderness." Bryant.
Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove.
Milton.
2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody
fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.]
"Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades." Spenser.
Woody fiber. (Bot.) (a)
Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at
each end. (b) A single wood cell. See under
Wood. Goodale. -- Woody nightshade.
(Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3 (a). --
Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-
shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus
Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.