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 John Foreman
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 Sir John Lubbock
Some may make the ungracious remark that she might have spared herself this task of humanizing; that she could have left these "ligneous Christians," these creatures of tar and turpentine, where she found them.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
