What does ligneous mean?

Definitions for ligneous
ˈlɪg ni əslig·neous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ligneousadjective

    consisting of or containing lignin or xylem

    "ligneous (or woody) tissue"

Wiktionary

  1. ligneousadjective

    Of, or resembling wood; woody.

  2. ligneousadjective

    Containing lignin or xylem.

  3. Etymology: lign-e-ous

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ligneousadjective

    Made of wood; wooden; resembling wood.

    Etymology: ligneus, Latin; ligneux, French.

    It should be tried with shoots of vines, and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a more ligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Ten thousand seeds of the plant harts-tongue, hardly make the bulk of a pepper-corn: now the covers, and the true body of each seed, the parenchymous and ligneous part of both, and the fibres of those parts, multiplied one by another, afford a hundred thousand millions of formed atoms, but how many more we cannot define. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

Wikipedia

  1. ligneous

    A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem. In cold climates, woody plants further survive winter or dry season above ground, as opposite to herbaceous plants that die back to the ground until spring.

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  1. ligneous

    Ligneous refers to something that is made of, resembles, or relates to wood. It could be used to describe certain plants or tissues. The term is typically used in biology or botany.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ligneousadjective

    made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody

  2. Etymology: [L. ligneus, fr. lignum wood. Cf. Lignous.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ligneous in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ligneous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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