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
Fossils, as these are called, consist generally of the harder and more durable parts of animals and plants, such as bones, shells, teeth, seeds, bark, and ligneous tissues, &c.
From Geology by James Geikie
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
To begin with, Holland has a meagre list of indigenous trees and shrubs, and scarcely an indigenous ligneous flora.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding
