lignify

About 0.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To become wood.
2. verb To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
3. verb To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
4. verb To turn into wood; to make ligneous.

Similar words

lignitize ignify treeify lapidify lustrify lichenize ossify ebonize fleshify wood

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Word family

lignification lignifications lignified lignifies lignifying