ligneous
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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 entire vegetation consisted of an occasional tuft of a low, sharp-pointed, smooth grass, ligneous within, and as hard as iron, but not brittle; so that it might very well be converted into mattress needles.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
Cut transversely it presents internally a circle of 8 to 12 cuneiform ligneous bundles, surrounded by a thick bark.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
The interior is filled with a powder that under the microscope appears to be made up of ligneous filaments mixed with a few spores.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by C. G. Lloyd
