What does woody mean?
Word: Woody
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Woody means hard like wood, as in the woody stem of a plant. Land covered with thick forest can also be called woody.
Synonyms: wooded
How do you spell woody?
Syllables: wood - y
Tricky part: Woody keeps both o's of wood, so wudy and woudy are the usual slips.
Watch out for: wudy, woudy, wody
Memory tip: Picture two round knots, o and o, in a plank of wood.
Woody in a sentence
Example 1: Mint has soft stems, but rosemary has woody ones.
Example 2: We walked through a woody valley near the hill town.
Example 3: The old pencil gave off a woody smell when Dev sharpened it.
Fun Fact
Bamboo looks woody and grows as tall as a tree, but it is actually a kind of grass.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Add the correct option to the unfinished word to make a new word:
The stems of our old curry leaf plant have turned wood____ and hard.
a) dy
b) y
c) ey
d) i
Show answer
b) y. A single y turns the noun wood into the describing word woody.
Sound Check
Which of the following words rhymes with woody?
a) moody
b) wordy
c) muddy
d) hoodie
Show answer
d) hoodie. Hoodie has the short 'oo' heard in good; moody looks closer, but its oo is long.
Spell Spies
Choose the option with no spelling errors:
a) woody, leify, grassy, rockky
b) woody, leafy, grassy, rocky
c) woody, leafy, grassey, roky
d) woody, leefy, grasy, rocky
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b) woody, leafy, grassy, rocky. Leafy keeps the ea of leaf, grassy the double s of grass, and rocky the ck of rock.
Jumble Tumble
What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?
dowoy
a) bright and shiny, like glass
b) cold and wet, like snow
c) soft and fluffy, like cotton
d) hard and stiff, like an old stick
Show answer
d) hard and stiff, like an old stick. Rearranged, d-o-w-o-y makes woody, the word for a hard, tree-like stem.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which plant has a woody stem?
a) a lettuce leaf
b) a lotus flower
c) a guava tree
d) a blade of grass
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c) a guava tree
2. Which of these is NOT woody?
a) a rose petal
b) a tree trunk
c) a dry twig
d) an old branch
Show answer
a) a rose petal
