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wooden pear

Woody \Wood"y\, a.

  1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. ``The woody wilderness.''
    --Bryant.

    Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove.
    --Milton.

  2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

  3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] ``Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades.'' --Spenser. Woody fiber. (Bot.)

    1. Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end.

    2. A single wood cell. See under Wood.
      --Goodale.

      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.

Usage examples of "wooden pear".

A quarter of a mile along, at a place marked by a grossly deviational tree shaped like a huge wooden pear, and with all its branches growing in one big tuft at the top, a runnel cut well back into the bank and made a way for the horses to get down.