woodly en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From wood + -ly (adjectival suffix)
Meanings
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(dated) Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.
Argonne, a woodly tract in France, partly in Upper Champagne, and partly in the Lower Barrois.
1827, The Edinburgh Gazetteer, page 243:SHALEFLEET. The name was probably derived from shaw, a woodly glen, and fleet, a running stream .
1945, Margaret Birney Pittis, Pittis Genealogy, page 25:It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.
2020, United States Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives:So saying, by the hand he took me raised, And over fields and waters, as in air, Smooth sliding without step, last led me up A woodly mountain; whose high top was plain, A circuit wide enclosed, with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers;
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
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Having tough, woody stems; woody.
In some regions of the African continent and South America, cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is a woodly shrub, is consumed boiled or fermented (Fossi and Ndjouenkeu, 2017).
2021, Mohammed Kuddus, Microbial Extremozymes, page 156:These are Sarracenia rubra which occurs in bogs and savannahs and Schisandra glabra a woodly vine found in rich woods .
1976, Port Royal Harbor Maintenance Dredging, page 13:Cuttings of bedding plants may nnow be made freely if wanted for next season, as young cuttings rooted in the fall make soft-wooded plants as pelargoniums, fuchsias, verbenas, heliotropes, &c.' with roses and plants of a woodly nature, however , the old plants usually do best.
1910, The Encyclopedia Britannica, page 781:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most woodly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more woodly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |