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woody nightshade (encz) | woody nightshade, n: |
Woody nightshade (gcide) | Woody \Wood"y\, a.
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody
wilderness." --Bryant.
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Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
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2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
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3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs,
fair Hamadryades." --Spenser.
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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.
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woody nightshade (wn) | woody nightshade
n 1: poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers
and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North
America [syn: bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade,
climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, {poisonous
nightshade}, woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara] |
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