Definition of Lignify

1. Verb. Convert into wood or cause to become woody.

Generic synonyms: Convert

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

1. To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance. Origin: L. Lignum wood + -fy: cf. F. Lignifier. To become wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lignify

lignels
ligneous
ligneous plant
ligneous struma
ligneous thyroiditis
lignes
lignicide
lignicolous
ligniferous
lignification
lignifications
lignified
lignifies
ligniform
lignify (current term)
lignifying
lignin
lignin-forming peroxidase
lignin peroxidase
ligninase
ligninases
ligninolytic
lignins
ligniperdous
lignireose
lignite
lignites
lignitic
lignitiferous

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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