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

In ligneous character, one of these almost precisely resembles the grain of the extant beech, and this specimen was wormeaten before it was converted into silex.

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

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 Geikie, James

With the diminished moisture the green gardens of France are replaced in Gobi by ligneous plants covered with a gray down.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William