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say it: WUUD-ee
woody is an adjective meaning "made of or containing or resembling wood". It is pronounced /ˈwʊdi/ — WUUD-ee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
abounding in trees
“an arboreous landscape”
“violets in woodsy shady spots”
“a woody area near the highway”
made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for woody come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.