woodly
adverb
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adj
Etymology: From wood + -ly (adjectival suffix)
- 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.”
- 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).
- Madly; furiously.