ligneous
101wooden — adj 1. wood, woody; ligneous, ligni form, xyloid. 2. stiff, Inf. stiff as a board, rigid; stolid, stodgy, stuffy; awkward, clumsy, ungainly, gauche. 3. dull, dull witted, thick witted, dim witted, slow witted, dim; obtuse, dense, Inf. thick;… …
102woody — I wood•y [[t]ˈwʊd i[/t]] adj. wood•i•er, wood•i•est 1) abounding with woods; wooded 2) belonging or pertaining to the woods; sylvan 3) consisting of or containing wood; ligneous 4) bot resembling wood, as in appearance, texture, or toughness: a… …
103xyloid — xy•loid [[t]ˈzaɪ lɔɪd[/t]] adj. bot resembling wood; ligneous • Etymology: 1850–55; < Gk xýl(on) wood + oid …
104woody — /ˈwʊdi/ (say woodee) adjective (woodier, woodiest) 1. covered with or having many woods or trees; wooded. 2. belonging or relating to the woods; sylvan. 3. situated in a wood. 4. consisting of or containing wood; ligneous. 5. resembling wood, as… …
105xyloid — /ˈzaɪlɔɪd/ (say zuyloyd) adjective resembling wood; ligneous. {Greek xyloeidēs, from xylo xylo + eides oid} …
106wooden — [adj1] made of timber board, clapboard, frame, ligneous, log, peg, plant, slab, timber, timbered, woody; concept 485 wooden [adj2] stiff, inflexible awkward, bumbling, clumsy, gauche, gawky, graceless, heavy, heavy handed, inelegant, inept,… …
107collect — [16] Collect comes via French collecter or medieval Latin collēctāre from collēct , the past participial stem of Latin colligere ‘gather together’, a compound verb formed from com ‘together’ and legere ‘gather’ (source also of English elect,… …
108lignaloes — [lī nal′ōz, lignal′ōz] n. [ME lignealoes < OFr lignalöé < ML lignum aloës, wood of aloe: see LIGNEOUS & ALOE] the resinous wood of various tropical trees containing an oil used in perfumes, soaps, foods, etc …
109ligni- — [lig′ni, lig′nə] [< L lignum: see LIGNEOUS] combining form wood [lignify]: also ligno [lig′nō, lig′nə] or, before a vowel, lign …
110lignite — [lig′nīt΄] n. [Fr: see LIGNEOUS & ITE1] a usually soft, brownish black coal in which the texture of the original wood can often still be seen: in the process of coalification it represents the intermediate stage in density and amount of carbon… …
