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woodiness|ˈwʊdɪnɪs|
[f. woody + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being woody.
1. Woody texture, consistence, or appearance.
1601Holland Pliny xv. xxviii. I. 450 Some fruits,..neither without in shell, nor within-forth in kernell, have any of this woodinesse. 1670Evelyn Sylva xxx. (ed. 2) 149 The Vatican Ilex, the Vine which was grown to that bulk and Woodinesse, as to make Columns in Juno's Temple. 1760Ellis in Phil. Trans. LI. 933 It promises, from the thickness and woodiness of its stem,..to become a shrub of six or seven feet high. 1850Nichol Archit. Heavens i. 17 Until individual trees could no longer be distinguished, and the view terminated in a..vague appearance, which I may be permitted to call a diffused woodiness. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. vi. viii. §10. 71 A very characteristic example of two faults in tree-drawing; namely, the loss not only of grace and spring, but of woodiness.
2. The condition of being full of woods or forests; prevalence or abundance of woodland; concr. woody growth.
1796Marshall Planting I. 119 By Woody Waste [is meant] grass land over-run with rough woodiness. 1799Stuart in Owen Wellesley's Desp. (1877) 114 Their movements were so well concealed by the woodiness of the country. 1869Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 180 The rich⁓sloping..woodiness that you remember on the Rhine. |