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LIGNIFY (lignified)

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Irregular inflected form: lignified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lignify mean? 

LIGNIFY (verb)
  The verb LIGNIFY has 1 sense:

1. convert into wood or cause to become woodyplay

  Familiarity information: LIGNIFY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIGNIFY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they lignify  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it lignifies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: lignified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: lignified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: lignifying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into wood or cause to become woody

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "lignify" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


An elongated, tapering, generally thick-walled sclerenchyma cell of vascular plants; its walls may or may not be lignified.

(Fiber, Food and Drug Administration)

Dense, often dark, and heavily lignified wood produced in the annual ring during the later part of the growing season, characterized by small, thick-walled cells.

(Latewood, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)



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