🌱 Partly hard stems 🪵 Partly wood 🌿 A half-woody plant

semiwoody

7.2

Made partly of wood and partly of other materials

adjective
/ˌsɛmiˈwʊdi/

: semileñoso

The architect designed a semiwoody fence that combined wooden panels with steel posts.

Examples

They chose a semiwoody table with a wooden top and metal legs for their kitchen.
The architect designed a semiwoody fence that combined wooden panels with steel posts.
Some shrubs have semiwoody stems that are not fully hard like tree trunks.
The semiwoody plant is resilient.
Many semiwoody plants thrive in Mediterranean climates.
Some shrubs have semiwoody stems that are not fully hard like tree trunks.
Many semiwoody plants thrive in Mediterranean climates.

Synonyms

wooden

vssemiwoody

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Made of wood

is only partly made of wood rather than fully made of it

timbered

vssemiwoody

5.5

Having walls or beams made of wood

highlights only partial material composition rather than visible structural beams

Antonyms

nonwoody

5.3

Plants with soft stems that do not become hard like tree trunks

How Wooden

wooden

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semiwoody

7.2

nonwoody

5.3

Surface Forms

semiwoody positive

Morphology

semiwoody = woody (transparent) = semi + wood + y

The word is a straightforward combination of semi- plus woody, meaning 'partly made of wood'.

Etymology

Semiwoody comes from semi- 'partly' and wood 'wood', the same parts you see in words like semicircle and wooden. So, semiwoody means something made partly of wood and partly of another material.