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woodiest

woodiest is the superlative form of woody.

Meaning of woody

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

  1. Covered in woods; wooded.
    • She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […].a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    sylvan, woodsy
  2. Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
  3. (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
    • 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  4. Non-herbaceous.
    • Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
  5. Lignified.
    • the woody parts of a plant

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Questions about woodiest

What is woodiest the superlative form of?
Woodiest is the superlative form of woody.

Words near woodiest in the dictionary

  1. woodie
  2. woodie wagon
  3. woodie wagons
  4. woodier
  5. woodies
  6. woodiest
  7. woodified
  8. woodifies
  9. woodify
  10. woodifying
  11. woodily

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