ligneous

Example Sentences

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He was educated during youthful travels through Western Europe, and loathed the Slavic, ligneous chaos of Moscow.

From Newsweek

Baba’s lips, formed from the tree trunk’s bark, were pressed tight, his ligneous face full of a quiet sadness.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The native dress is made of the bark of trees, smashed with stones, to extract the ligneous parts.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

It rises to the height of three or four feet; the branches which when young are succulent become ligneous by age: these flowers which appear early in the summer produce ripe seeds in the autumn.

From The Botanical Magazine Vol. 7 or, Flower-Garden Displayed by Curtis, William

In ligneous character, one of these almost precisely resembles the grain of the extant beech, and this specimen was wormeaten before it was converted into silex.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.