WOODY PEAR • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Woody pear

/wˈʊdi pɛr/ Listen

adjective

Woody adj.

Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." "Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove."

Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. (R.) "Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades."

Woody fiber. (Bot.)

(a)

Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end.

(b)

A single wood cell. See under Wood.

Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3 (a).

Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; called also wooden pear.

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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