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ligneous

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Adjective
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lig=ne=ous

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective ligneous has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

ligneousa. [L. ligneus, fr. lignum wood. Cf. Lignous.].
     Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.  [1913 Webster]
    "It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself."  [1913 Webster]
Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ligneous, adj.
1 (of a plant) woody (opp. HERBACEOUS).
2 of the nature of wood.

Etymology
L ligneus (as LIGNI-)

ROGET THESAURUS

ligneous

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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