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What does ligneous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ligneous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, or resembling wood; woody.
  2. (botany) Containing lignin or xylem.
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The cellular tissue itself, which forms usually only a twentieth or twenty-fifth of the whole weight, consists of ligneous fibre.
The cooking process separates the cellulose fibres in the wood from ligneous and other components.
The importance of ligneous fuel sources in the national energy balance: more than 87 percent of final energy consumption.
Their erosion sends a sizable quantity of organic matter and ligneous debris into the lake, in addition to silt and clay.
Wood trade showed among others, the economic interest of ligneous formations this explains their over exploitation.
With the diminished moisture the green gardens of France are replaced in Gobi by ligneous plants covered with a gray down.

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