woodyadjective
uk/ˈwʊd.i/us/ˈwʊd.i/woody adjective (MATERIAL)
like wood, for example in taste or smell
Woody plants have hard stems:
The garden was overgrown with woody plants such as hawthorn and bramble.
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- odour
- pong
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stench
- stinky
- waft
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Flavours & tastes
Types of plant
woody adjective (GROUP OF TREES)
having many trees:
They lived in a remote house set high on a woody hillside.
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Forestry
- afforestation
- arborist
- brushwood
- cut sth down
- deforestation
- fell
- flitch
- forested
- forester
- glade
- grove
- jungle
- logging
- logjam
- old growth
- saw sth down
- spinney
- the timberline
- tree-lined
- wooded
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