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Webster 1913 Edition
Lignify
Lig′ni-fy
(lĭg′nĭ-fī)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lignified
(lĭg′nĭ-fīd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lignifying
(lĭg′nĭ-fīˊĭng)
.] [L.
lignum
wood + -fy
: cf. F. lignifier
.] (Bot.)
To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
Lig′ni-fy
,Verb.
I.
(Bot.)
To become wood.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lignify
LIG'NIFY
,Verb.
T.
LIG'NIFY
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
lignify
lignify
English
Verb
lignify (third-person singular simple present lignifies, present participle lignifying, simple past and past participle lignified)
- (intransitive) To become wood.
- (intransitive, botany): To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
- (intransitive), (by extension): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
- (transitive) To turn into wood; to make ligneous.
Related terms
Translations
to become wood
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