woody plant

1. 1.

   a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems

   Synonymsligneous plant

   Broadervascular plant

   Narrowerbugbanemelilotusaraliacombretumtraveler's treeQueensland grass-cloth plantmilk vetchwild indigobush cloverlupine

   Partsxylem

Questions about woody plant

What does woody plant mean?

woody plant means "a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems".

What is another word for woody plant?

Close synonyms include ligneous plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is woody plant a common word?

woody plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.