woody

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective made of or containing or resembling wood
adjective abounding in trees
adjective made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.

Search well that mountain’s woody side If Rávaṇ there his captive hide. — The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, Valmiki
Thou art my guide, my master thou, and lord.” So spake I; and when he had onward mov’d, I enter’d on the deep and woody way. — The divine comedy, Dante Alighieri
The herbs in the grass, wild-thyme, wild-balm, and star-flowered camomile, smelt strongly aromatic as she trod them under foot, while the beds of bracken, dried and yellowed by the drought, gave off a sharp, woody scent. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet

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