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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To turn into wood or become woody through the formation and deposit of lignin in cell walls.
  2. v. To make woody or woodlike by the deposit of lignin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Bot.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
  2. v. (Bot.) To become wood.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. convert into wood or cause to become woody

Etymologies

  1. From Latin līgnum "wood" + -ify (Wiktionary)

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