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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woodsy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was an airy, almost woodsy, unhappy place.
▪ Like an architect, he created a series of forest rooms connected by woodsy hallways.
▪ The parking lot is quickly transformed into a woodsy park.
▪ Their motel was off from the main thoroughfare, protected by trees and woodsy seclusion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodsy

Woodsy \Woods"y\, a. Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. [Colloq. U. S.]

It [sugar making] is woodsy, and savors of trees.
--J. Burroughs.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woodsy

1848, American English, from woods (see wood (n.)) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
woodsy

a. 1 Of, relating to, or suggestive of woods. 2 Having many trees.

WordNet
woodsy
  1. adj. characteristic or suggestive of woods; "a fresh woodsy fragrance"

  2. abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woody]

  3. [also: woodsiest, woodsier]

Usage examples of "woodsy".

Her hair was freshly braided into cornrows with pearls and silver beads that jarred musically when she moved, and perfumed with myrrh for a resinous, woodsy smell.

Below the garden a green field lush with clover sloped down to the hollow where the brook ran and where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally.

The scent of bay rum and woodsy herbs, coupled with an unmistakable undertone of Alex himself, filled her lungs.

Punching the king-size maroon bed pillow, she fell back against the warm flannel sheets, inhaling the scent of his woodsy after shave.

In it were crushed petals and stems of fennel, hyssop, bee balm, sour camomile, woodsy sage, and other plants.

Wiley looked up from the newspaper advertisement and gazed out at the woodsy shadows.

Alert to the minute signs of the hunters' passing, Toli followed the party unerringly through the thick, woodsy tangle.