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Definition of Lignify
1. Verb. Convert into wood or cause to become woody.
Definition of Lignify
1. v. t. To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
2. v. i. To become wood.
Definition of Lignify
1. Verb. (intransitive) To become wood. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) , (botany) : To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) , (''by extension''): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To turn into wood; to make ligneous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lignify
1. to convert into wood [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Medical Definition of Lignify
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lignify
Literary usage of Lignify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Methods of Grafting and Budding, as Applied to Reconstitution with by Raymond Dubois, W Percy Wilkinson (1901)
"... it is to be feared that the shoot would not have time to lignify, and the
trials of this method with dormant eyes have not been successful. ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"There were then written two Z/Z/'s and at over, and an / and an r, which was
urged, " could lignify nothing but Lord " Lieutenant of Ireland ;" and the ..."
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