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What does lignify mean?

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

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To become wood.
  2. (botany) To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
  3. (intransitive, by extension) To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
  4. (transitive) To turn into wood; to make ligneous.
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Within a year, plants reach full height, and over the next 6-8 years, plants gain hardness and strength as they lignify.
Dehiscence is controlled by a set of transcription factors that define the fruit tissue layers and whether or not they lignify.
The shoots of susceptible grapevines, when infected early, fail to lignify, are thin, rubbery, and hang pendulously.
Herbaceous peonies are perennial plants which do not lignify and every year, after sprouting between april and may, vanish in autumn to reappear the following spring.
It has very long vine shoots, with elongated internodes, whose tendrils lignify.
Sheikh Mohammed's organisation has recruited Argentinian mare Lignify and will aim her at the Dubai World Cup in March.

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