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woodly

adverb

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From wood + -ly (adjectival suffix)

  1. Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy.

    So saying, by the hand he took me raised, And over fields and waters, as in air, Smooth sliding without step, last led me up A woodly mountain; whose high top was plain, A circuit wide enclosed, with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers;

    Argonne, a woodly tract in France, partly in Upper Champagne, and partly in the Lower Barrois.

  2. Having tough, woody stems; woody.

    Cuttings of bedding plants may nnow be made freely if wanted for next season, as young cuttings rooted in the fall make soft-wooded plants as pelargoniums, fuchsias, verbenas, heliotropes, &c.' with roses and plants of a woodly nature, however , the old plants usually do best.

    These are Sarracenia rubra which occurs in bogs and savannahs and Schisandra glabra a woodly vine found in rich woods .

adv

Etymology: From Middle English wodly, wodliche (“furiously, wildly”), equivalent to wood (“mad, furious, wild, insane”) + -ly (adverbial suffix).

  1. Madly; furiously.