nonwoody
5.3
Plants with soft stems that do not become hard like tree trunks
- adjective
- /nɑnˈwʊdi/
:
herbáceo
- Nonwoody plants are typically softer and easier to manage than those with woody stems.
- nonwoody plants
Examples
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Many gardeners prefer to grow nonwoody plants because they often require less maintenance.
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A lobelia, pue, that grows in the swamp has a woody stem up to three feet tall and up to three inches in diameter, in contrast to lobelias elsewhere in the United States, which are nonwoody wildflowers.
Academic text (1995) -
During the summer, our yard is filled with nonwoody flowers that attract numerous insects.
Antonyms
How Woody
Surface Forms
nonwoody positive
Morphology
Etymology
Nonwoody starts with non- which means 'not', and ends with woody, from 'wood', the hard material of trees. So nonwoody describes plants that are 'not' made of wood and have soft stems instead of hard, woody ones.