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
Neither inside nor out does the lens discover the slightest ligneous particle pointing to a vegetable residue.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
But among the dicotyledonous vegetables there is none that merit the attention of naturalists as the creeping ligneous plants known as so much lianes.
From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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 George P. Marsh
