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

There are many cases when even in the same family low and herb-like species have finely-cut leaves, while in shrubby or ligneous ones they more or less resemble those of the Laurel or Beech.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

The outside of the durian is ligneous and is covered with strong prickles of nearly an inch long.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone

These measures, I believe, include the entire ligneous product of the tree, exclusive of the roots, and express the actual solid contents.

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