1. male first name; family name; nickname of Woodrow Herman (1913-1987), U.S. jazz musician (saxophonist and clarinetist) and bandleader. forested; covered with trees; pertaining to a forest; of trees; resembling a tree. woody\wood"y\ , a.
2. abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "the woody wilderness." secret shades of woody ida's inmost grove.
3. consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
4. 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.woody adj.
5. made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste" [ant: nonwoody].
6. abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy].
7. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls [syn: lignified].
8. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
9. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
10. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste".
11. 1. Woody plants have very hard stems. Care must be taken when trimming around woody plants like shrubs and trees.
12. A woody area has a lot of trees in it. the wet and woody Vosges mountains. Allen Woody Guthrie Woody Herman Woody.