Ligneous [adjective]
Definition of Ligneous:
made of timber
Synonyms of Ligneous:
Sentence/Example of Ligneous:
In proportion as they increase in age and in strength—especially in their last year—do they attack also ligneous vegetation.
The fragile ligneous cylinder would certainly have been broken during such transportation.
The cellular tissue itself, which forms usually only a twentieth or twenty-fifth of the whole weight, consists of ligneous fibre.
A and D include twenty ligneous species out of forty-nine, that is about forty-one per cent.
Also we allowed our teeth to play with the ligneous hardtack and finally fatigued with our exertions we slept soundly.
It grows to the height of about four feet, has a stem imperfectly ligneous, without branches.
The common kind is known to have small pinnated leaves growing on stalks imperfectly ligneous.
The stalk soon becomes ligneous, and in time acquires considerable thickness.
This goblet was the ligneous and impermeable capsule, the fruit, naturally and deeply hollowed out, of a tree called quatela.
The native dress is made of the bark of trees, smashed with stones, to extract the ligneous parts.