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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To turn into wood or become woody through the formation and deposit of lignin in cell walls.
  • intransitive verb To make woody or woodlike by the deposit of lignin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To convert into or become wood; make or grow woody.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb (Bot.) To become wood.
  • transitive verb (Bot.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To become wood.
  • verb intransitive , (botany): To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
  • verb intransitive , (by extension): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
  • verb transitive To turn into wood; to make ligneous.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb convert into wood or cause to become woody

Etymologies

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From Latin līgnum "wood" + -ify

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