Ligneous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 347 anagrams from letters in ligneous (egilnosu).
First recorded in 1620-30, ligneous is from the Latin word ligneus of wood. See lign-, -eous
ligneous, or woody tissue (lignin) is indurated cellulose, hardened by age.
The species of the genus Sirex, probably all of them in their larva state, have no appetite but for ligneous food.
The cassava cakes sent to Europe are composed almost entirely of starch, along with a few fibres of the ligneous matter.
Everywhere else is the ligneous fence, generally too hard and thick to break through.
The outside of the durian is ligneous and is covered with strong prickles of nearly an inch long.
Here and there branches were broken off, stripped clean of their leaves, and the ligneous parts left upon the ground.
With the diminished moisture the green gardens of France are replaced in Gobi by ligneous plants covered with a gray down.
In proportion as they increase in age and in strength—especially in their last year—do they attack also ligneous vegetation.
The cellular tissue itself, which forms usually only a twentieth or twenty-fifth of the whole weight, consists of ligneous fibre.
The list of the sites that suit her would almost form a complete catalogue of the ligneous flora.
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