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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 woody /ˈwʊdi/
 (a.)多樹木的,木質的,森林的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 woody
      adj 1: made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants";
             "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"
             [ant: nonwoody]
      2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in
         woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn:
          arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy]
      3: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of
         lignin in the cell walls [syn: lignified]
      [also: woodiest, woodier]