Wood·y a.
 1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.  “The woody wilderness.”
 Secret shades
 Of woody Ida's inmost grove.   --Milton.
 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
 3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.  [R.] “Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades.”
 Woody fiber. Bot. (a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end. (b) A single wood cell.  See under Wood. --Goodale.
 Woody nightshade. Bot.. See Bittersweet, 3 (a).
 Woody pear Bot., the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.
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 woody nightshade
      n : poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and
          oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
          [syn: bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing
          nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade,
           Solanum dulcamara]