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View definitions for ligneous

ligneous

adjective as in wooden

adjective as in woody

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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.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ligneous, such as: board, clapboard, frame, log, peg, and plant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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