How To Use Woody In A Sentence

It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions. The Unshine Boys
Woody stemmed plants, like Buddleia and plants that ooze sap, like Asclepias, should be cut and placed in hot water.
Check out the pincushion hakea with its pointy-tipped nuts like fairy bells; the teak pods that open up like wooden flowers, and the large woody pears with slightly furry grey skin that's very soft to the touch.
Other major constituents include limonene (lemony), thymol (thyme-like), cadinene (green-like) and germacrene (spicy and woody). Sechuan Buttons: The Taste of Electricity
( "Some will rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen," go the words to Woody Guthrie's ballad "Pretty Boy Floyd.") Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. Woody Allen
The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David. A Renegade History of the United States
Avoid whole herbs with woody or rigid stems, such as oregano, sage, rosemary, tarragon, or marjoram.
A higher mesophyll resistance in woody plants than in herbs, and in sclerophylls than in mesophytes, has been reported.
I went to the woody area in the middle of the maze in the courtyard of our school that not many people know even exists and began to eat my lunch when I overheard Mercedes and another girl talking.
He made us see it was as if this soldier were on his way to Washington to help strategise for D-day and instead gets stuck in this Podunk town where he meets this guy, Woody, who thinks he's just gone off the deep end.
In the region as seen from the small plane, in my case the mountains and woody uplands of the Northeast?
Major climate-related species distributions at the large scale include the limit of trees, which is associated with the isoline for mean July air temperatures of about 10 °C [3] (as discussed in [4]) and soil temperature of 7 °C [5], and the limit of woody plants such as dwarf shrubs that are one indicator of the boundary of the polar desert biome [6]. Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges
To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
Lavender oils and flowers in potpourri is almost always from the hybrid lavandin, as real lavender officinalis has a more woody, herbaceous scent and is not as easy to grow in lower elevations. Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
And Westfeldt unloads her fake neuroses in too many dull ripoffs of good Woody Allen.
This occurs when woody structures, known as burls grow down from underneath large branches.
The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern.
Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs.
For instance, subbituminous coal may be distinguished from lignite, not by its fuel ratio alone, but by its shiny, black appearance as contrasted with the dull, woody appearance of lignite. The Economic Aspect of Geology
Basal areas of several woody species differed between the log and forest floor microsites.
And, O son of Kunti, in that spot is the tirtha called Asoka abounding in woody retreats of ascetics. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
Now I have a temporary desk space in the upstairs back room we're using as a library, very cosy and snug, and a view over the belt of woody scrubland at the back of the estate.
This woody, hilly temperate land with occasionally steep, sometimes even terraced vineyards of limestone and clay is ideal for the production of relatively delicate, fruity white wines.
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. Woody Allen
The spraypaint used to be an homage to Woody Allen, but is now nearly ruined and more confusable with a violent album cover. Get the Word to the Streets
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. Woody Allen
They lived in a remote cottage set high on a woody hillside.
unless shaking your boobage, pouting your lips, and giving faintly dead eye stares is acting, Scarlett Johannsson needs to find another line of work..unless its with Woody Allen because the man can take a talentless hack and make her an Oscar winner Mira Sorvino anyone? Jessica Biel Is Wonder Woman, To Some Extent
We were mooncalves when it came to Woody Allen.
If a dead tree is still standing, we leave it, as we do with woody debris on the forest floor.
Like the lycopod trees, these woody calamites scarcely survived the ‘Age of Coal’, and by the mid-Permian they were extinct.
In more recent years, Napoleon—impersonated by Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom, Woody Allen and others—has featured in a number of more or less colossal productions, none unsurpassable. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
To cook asparagus, remove the woody ends first and peel part way up if the stalks are tough, then place in a skillet where the stalks can lie flat.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
The Carbohydrates comprise starch, sugar, gum, mucilage, pectose, glycogen, &c.; cellulose and woody fibre are carbohydrates, but are little capable of digestion. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
She's one of Woody's great creations, a larger than life figure who is compelled to transform every moment of her offstage life into a drama worthy of the hammiest theater. Archive 2008-06-01
Spring flowers give way to those gum balls, woody balls covered with curved spines and containing one or two winged seeds.
It combines saffron, musk and vanilla with bergamot, orange blossom, nutmeg, clove and iris to create a warm, woody, yet soft scent.
Special trees were planted to create woody perennials to improve the microclimate and increase soil fertility.
I don't smell saffron in Evening Edged in Gold, but I do get a lot of cinnamon, which I think goes wonderfully well with the nectarous, ripe quality of the flowers and which enhances the balmy, comforting feel of the woody base. Perfume Review: Ineke Evening Edged in Gold
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’
While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy. "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender"
Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically. The Mysterious Island
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
He was a skinny teenager in camo pants and a helmet, striking a pose with a machine gun, and a similar photo of another young guy: on the back it said "Woody Herald - killed on Guadalcanal.
Zach D. on Jun 10, 2008 are you kidding me??? jerry maguire and almost famous are freakin awsome!!! woody on Aug 17, 2008 Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon Starring in Cameron Crowe's Next Film « FirstShowing.net
Woody Guthrie once sang that “some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.” Rebecca Solnit: When the Media Is the Disaster: Covering Haiti
The major aroma components in black pepper the terpenes pinene, sabinene, limonene, caryophyllene, linalool create an overall impression that is fresh, citrusy, woody, warm, and floral. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
is both daffier and more amiable than a Woody Allen film, but the sibling filmmakers Jesse Peretz directed and his sister Evgenia Peretz co-wrote the screenplay have concocted sort of a Ned and His Sisters. TIME.com: Top Stories
VENTURA - Woody and Louise Bretz, owners of Connexions Dance Studio in Ventura, placed third in their division at the 2009 U.S. Ventura County Star Stories
Always go for smaller roots, because they are more tender than larger ones, which can be woody.
Most of the identifiable woody debris was pine snags, stumps, boles, or branches.
Able only to mumble coded secrets, poets often seem the village idiots so wickedly satirized by Woody Allen's Love and Death.
Hence, as vegetation shifts from mosses and lichens to grasses and woody species, runoff is very likely to contain increasing concentrations of DOC and particulate detrital material. Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic
Woody herbs, like thyme, marjoram and winter savory stay green in all but the hardest winters and clip into tiny hedging.
It so drained Dunwoody that he felt forced to consult a sports psychologist.
Other woody plants include fragrant sumac, evergreen sumac, little walnut, Mexican buckeye, Texas persimmon, Texas snowbell, and western white honeysuckle.
The only thing you can do about the woody toughness of this veg is simmering, prior to peeling of course! Mashed Parsley Root & Sweet Potato | A Veggie Venture
The fruit is dehiscent, woody, aggregated in bunches and generally contains two seeds.
Distilled twice in the odd-looking Charentais still, with only the heart, not head or tails, of the run, then aged for many years in oak casks, cognac eventually acquires its distinctive, warm, woody, rancio flavour.
Within habitats, forestry must ensure heterogeneity with the retention of snags, remnant trees, woody debris, and a more natural variety of tree species.
That is where you've got grazing land largely, and it appears that the woody vegetation, trees, eucalypts and acacias, native pines and other shrubs, are becoming denser and denser.
The genus Populus (poplars, cottonwoods and aspens) contains approx. 30 species of woody plant, all found in the Northern hemisphere and exhibiting some of the fastest growth rates observed in temperate trees.
The leaves are its main feature; with age it becomes rather tall, 6ft. to 9ft. high, having a woody hole or caudex, which is largely concealed by the handsome drooping foliage; a few of the youngest leaves from the middle of the tuft remain erect. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The set-up here is Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) are in Beverly Hills and are looking for a hideout from the zombies. Top 10 Cameo Roles in Movies » Scene-Stealers
Deeply flavored, with woody/mushroomy and spicy/peppery hints, it is slightly acidulated and nicely long on the palate.
It's this last film that truly paved the way for what ultimately was inevitable for Woody Allen: a full-fledged, old-fashioned musical, with actors singing their hearts out and breaking into impromptu soft-shoes.
Abstract: Three published estimates of the frequency of polyploidy in angiosperms 30 to 35 percent, 47 percent, and 70 to 80 percent were tested by estimating the genome size of extinct woody angiosperms with the use of fossil guard cell size as a proxy for cellular DNA content. Junk DNA is still junk - The Panda's Thumb
‘Large woody debris provides shelter for fish and insects, stabilizes caving banks, and restores riparian habitats,’ says Shields.
In woody plants, carbon-based chemical compounds such as phenolics and terpenes comprise the main chemical defence.
Canada, long known as the granary, is also the "woodyard" of the Empire, and had a wonderful display of pulp and paper covering a thousand square feet. The British Empire Exhibition, A Study in Geography, Resources, and Citizenship of the British Empire
The Comptonia or sweet-fern is in flower, the brown, catkin-like blossoms are nearly as fragrant as the foliage; it is the only fern we have with woody branches. Rural Hours
Production of one class of product, woody decorative florals, is being tested in several agroforestry configurations.
A Woody Allen-type nebbish, Lenny is a kvetcher ( "My mind was full of sickening Jewish worry, the pogrom within and the pogrom without"); he frets about his age, his baldness and, in a major way, his parents. Down and Out In Gotham
She dedicated her first album to Woody Allen.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
Scale insects enjoy perennial plants and can devastate nut and fruit trees, greenhouse plants, forest vegetation, woody ornamentals, and house plants.
When an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin (owner of Al's Toy Barn) kidnaps Woody, and Woody learns that he's a highly valued collectable from a 1950s TV show called "Woody's Roundup," the stage is set for a daring rescue attempt by the gang from Andy's room. Disney and Pixar's Full Animated Line-Up Through 2012! « FirstShowing.net
The often-misspelled bougainvillea is a woody tropical vine of the four-o'clock family.
Encroachment of woody vegetation into the grassy openings was assessed using belt transects and dendrochronology.
I measured one which was fifteen feet in circumference: how surprising it is that every atom of the woody matter in this great cylinder should have been removed and replaced by silex so perfectly that each vessel and pore is preserved! Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Woody stem diameters were measured with calipers to the nearest millimeter immediately above the root collar.
Granted, I didn't have one blowing in my earhole, but I am now like one of Pavlov's dogs, when I hear a vuvuzela, I get a soccer woody. David Henry Sterry: World Cup 2010: What We Learned About Ourselves and the World
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
In his 40th film as director, Woody Allen revisits themes of life, love and mortality that he has examined before; but this time the humor is a bit darker and the characters, perhaps, more desperate. Woody Allen's Latest Movie Takes Darker Look at Life and Love
Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Fred Stoller Fred Stoller's neurotic Brooklynite whine makes Woody Allen seem like an amateur, and Mr. Stoller, 52, has worked his gift into a career, first as a deadpan stand-up comic and then as a nebbishy actor in countless short-lived sitcom roles: Elaine's annoying date in an episode of "Seinfeld," a mopey cousin on "Everybody Loves Raymond," a jerky waiter on "Friends. Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
Woody Guthrie was one of a long line of folk songsters going back at least to Joe Hill, identifying with the poor and exploited.
Graham wants to grow vegetables as well as flowers and I want to plant a couple of trees to make a woody arbour for my old age.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. Woody Allen
-- Chaste-tree (Vitex agnus-castus) is a shrub that can be cut hard in winter, leaving 6 - to 10-inch woody stubs. Knowing when to prune is crucial for dependable flower blossoms
This occurs for non-woody monocotyledons of low biomass, where leaves form a constant high proportion of the total biomass.
The one drawback is that it is short lived and will soon become woody and overlarge.
Woody plants show three ecological strategies: deciduous woody in summer: Thamnoseris lacerata var. lobata (Asteraceae-Cichoroideae), the only tree on the island. bushy woody, evergreen, microphyllous (small leafed): Frankenia vidalii (Frankeniaceae) and Atriplex chapinii (Chenopodiaceae). woody, bushy, with succulent leaves: Suaeda nesophila (Chenopodiaceae) and Maireana brevifolia (Chenopodiaceae). San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests
It is dominated by woody Myosporum obscurum and Coprosma petiolata and the herbaceous species Asplenium obtusatum, Cyperus ustulatus, Disphyma australe, and Scirpus nodosus. Kermadec Islands subtropical moist forests
This vetiver could be described as earthy and perhaps a tad smoky and woody and quite musky. Decoding Obscure Notes Part VII: Vetiver - Earthy? Woody? Green?
Some sorts, the present one included, are not very readily propagated, as the crowns are not on separate pieces of root, but often crowded on a woody caudex. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The woody stem acts in these regions as the _doornboom_ of South Africa, the wild sage of the western prairies, and the _shih_ (_absinthium_) of the Arabian desert. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie. The legacy of John Lennon
Put you nose right up to the pine tree trunk, inhale deeply, and the resinously woody, strangely cool aroma that you would get would be that of Agraria Balsam. Archive 2007-01-01
The aroma possesses a vanillic bravura that is woody, slightly anisic and lavender-infused, generating the sense of violet as a color rather than a flavor. Archive 2008-02-01
This is a cracker - an unputdownable, rattling good hunting yarn, where the quarry is books, and the author (as self-deprecating and as amusing as Woody Allen) is the great white hunter.
Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle.
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. Woody Allen
Woody plants including gooseberries, raspberries and even roses may suffer from dieback after their leaves wilt and shrivel, changing to brown.
Parts of plants are generally described as ‘succulent’ if they are particularly fleshy, not woody, to the feel and noticeably watery if squashed.
Materials in liquids can be injected into trees' woody tissues, known as xylem, because the pressure within the xylem is below that of atmospheric pressure on the outside.
It is very perfumey at first: violet accord that is both powdery like orris and wet and woody like cassie underlined by noticeable dosage of heliotropin - that vanillic molecule that makes heliotrope smells so sweet, almondy and plasticky all at once. Archive 2009-01-01
In woody plants, carbon-based chemical compounds such as phenolics and terpenes comprise the main chemical defence.
Woody Allen says he loves London's famous gray and dreary weather and its residents' ever-expressive slang.
(thus running out into the sea in steep promontories) occurs -- what they would call a 'chine' in the Isle of Wight; but instead of the soft south wind stealing up the woody ravine, as it does there, the eastern breeze comes piping shrill and clear along these northern chasms, keeping the trees that venture to grow on the sides down to the mere height of scrubby brushwood. Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
This grassland-dependent species is fairly intolerant of cultivation and tends to avoid areas that contain extensive woody vegetation or that occur near roads.
It is an annual or, more usually, a short-term perennial shrub growing up to 4 m high and woody at the base. 1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues.
Both have woody trunks and woody roots as well as stipulate leaf bases.
Perennial woody plants are the dominant species in many ecosystems of the world and have significant ecological and economic importance.
Then came ‘Everyone Says I Love You,’ by Woody Allen, which I watched for 7 minutes before developing a dense, hot, intense & unslakable loathing for the entire movie.
There's an unintentional feeling of sadness in Woody Allen's latest comedy.
Socialist poetry: two words to conjure images of earnest but artless efforts by would-be Woody Guthries.
Evidence would also show the pair had practised using homemade weapons both at Morrison's flat in Bridlington and in a woodyard where a silhouette target was found by police.
Woody was involved in retrieval of a bag from a parked vehicle, for which he was paid £60.
A non-woody species may have behaved differently.
Richard Dunwoody is in front in the jockeys' title race.
A length of unidentifiable brown woody tree bark, possibly cinnamon -- meaning unknown.
In woody plants, carbon-based chemical compounds such as phenolics and terpenes comprise the main chemical defence.
A former worker, who asked not to be named, told the Yorkshire Post: ‘There were at least 10 lads at work clearing wood from the woodyard next door to Goodwin's and putting it in skips.’
In old clover the proportion of insoluble woody fibre is often so considerable as to greatly detract from the alimental value of the plant. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
Ingredients(Serves two as a starter)500g rump or sirloin steak1 bunch large asparagus10 olives1 punnet cherry tomatoes200g mixed salad leaves, such as rocket or watercress2 spring onions 100ml olive oil10ml red wine vinegar10ml balsamic vinegar½ tsp Dijon mustard½ tsp grated horseradish (or horseradish sauce if you can't get fresh)Rock saltFresh milled black pepperMethodCut off the woody part of the asparagus stalk. Beef, asparagus and horseradish salad recipe / Angela Hartnett
Woody beat his bowlegs and then shuffled back over to Griffith. BLASTIN’ THE BLUES
Archaeopteris was a true tree, with a woody trunk, xylem, secondary cambium, and leaves.
By the little bridge itself the turf is spangled with yellow quadrants of tormentil – a miniature heathland potentilla the woody, red, astringent rhizome of which was much prized by the apothecaries. Country diary: Barmouth
Almost all the streams round the Chesapeake, in spite of their being perpetually "thrashed," and never preserved, abound in small trout; but farther afield, in Northwestern Maryland, where the tributaries of the Potomac and Shenandoah flow down the woody ravines of Border and Bastille
Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
Their specialty is converting sunlight into nonwoody tissues loaded with starch; that is, into vast fields of high-energy food—fields that grow 20 feet high.
Cercidium microphyllum, a green-stemmed, drought - deciduous tree 3 to 5 m high, is a dominant woody legume on rocky slopes and bajadas throughout the Sonoran Desert.
P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
[Dr. Johnson again.] acorn ... the nut of the oak usu. seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
In woody plants, the cambial layer in the trunk, branches and roots also retains proliferative capacity.
These communities are generally stable with few weedy invaders, although they are often colonized by woody shrubs like matagouri. Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
Coarse woody debris was sampled using the overstory plots as the delimiter.
Claire was content just driving with her husband and daughter together in their separate thoughts, but the silence was short-lived, because Alice began to sing Woody Guthrie songs. So Much Pretty
There are 7 genus, 42 species and 9 varieties of woody plant Saxifragaceae in Gansu province, most of which distribute in natural forest area and a few species are cultivated.
One group of plants that stands out conspicuously are those lofty and lanky woody perennials, the trees and shrubs.
Discard leaves and woody outer layers; save the white inner core.
One is canker, referring to a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, usually in the mouth, and hence an area of diseased tissue, as in woody stems.
At the moment, Johansson is heading back to London to continue work on Woody Allen's next movie, an as yet untitled comedy co-starring Hugh Jackman.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen
On the one hand, there's this woody liana which has in it a series of beta-carbolines, harmine, harmaline, mildly hallucinogenic. Wade Davis on endangered cultures
This is followed by woody shrubs, such as Adenaria floribunda, Alchornea castanaefolia, and Salix martiana, then by early successional trees, such as Annona hypoglauca, Astrocaryum jauari, and Cecropia latiloba. Iquitos varzea
Both groups had woody stems that were heavily armored with persistent leaf bases, much like modern cycads.
Keols, invisible in the forest canopy, were calling to each other in their incessant woody voices.
Graham wants to grow vegetables as well as flowers and I want to plant a couple of trees to make a woody arbour for my old age.
At the moment, Johansson is heading back to London to continue work on Woody Allen's next movie, an as yet untitled comedy co-starring Hugh Jackman.
The vegetation that develops there, due to the mass effect, includes the following types of vegetation: thorny plants located in the piedmont (0 a 300 m), deciduous basimontane tropophilous forests (300 to 550 m), cloud forests (550 a 700), Antillan scrubland (700 a 800), consisting of small trees with bush-like characteristics, and pseudo-paramo vegetation (800 to 830 m) with dwarf woody plants. Paraguana xeric scrub
Diana Ross, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Barbara Streisand and more, all were on hand to see Ali regain the title he'd lost at the hands not of any athletic opponent, but a vengeful government. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
For years, Woody Johnson was known as the reclusive billionaire owner of the Jets. NYT > Home Page
The gin is assertive, woody, a pungent mouthful, with the bite of alcohol and aromatics.
Cattleyas make copious roots, which are a joy when they explode from the base of the newly formed pseudobulb The thick, creeping, woody rhizome connecting the pseudobulbs often resins in the development of new growths the rriimm of the pot, and, when the new roots follow, this can be a problem ice the grower. Article Source
Bogart and Bergman's heart-rending airstrip farewell is enshrined as one of the all-time great endings, and was pastiched to great effect in Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam.
Richard Dunwoody is in front in the jockeys' title race.
A slice across the stem of a tree shows many different tissues with more or less technical names, bark and cambium, medullary rays, pith, and more or less specialised tissue; air-vessels, punctate vessels, woody fibres, liber fibres, scalariform vessels, and other more or less specialised tissues. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
Also called timberdoodle, woody and bog snipe, they're classified shorebirds but live in the woods and are most active at night. Post-gazette.com - News
The mechanical design of terrestrial plants has received much attention; studies have investigated the design of upright species and the mechanics of climbing woody species.
Pericarp woody, dehiscent at the tip by 2-4 valves; contains 1-4 seeds, slightly orbiculate, coriaceous. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
Dry, spicy leather amplified by the woody-leathery guaiac note. Brooklyn by Bond No 9: Perfume Review
In Lyons, whirring machinery can debark a tree weighing more than a ton in seconds, spinning the woody cylinder into slick sheets of fiber that are transformed into plywood. Logging Towns Revive in Quake's Wake
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
Woody spruce tips and sautéed chanterelles neutralize the gaminess of a tender venison.
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
Gunatilleke and Gunatilleke examined the floristic composition and phytosociology of woody vegetation and assessed its conservation value. Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Large patches of the non-native Aralia elata were observed, and discussion followed concerning the importance of the inflorescence in determining species of woody aralias.
Hydrangea, butterfly bush, and many other handsome deciduous shrubs can be propagated easily and quickly from softwood cuttings - pieces of stem that are neither too new nor woody.
The facts which I have adduced clearly prove that the straws of the cereals possess a far higher nutritive power than is commonly ascribed to them; that when properly harvested they contain from 20 to 40 per cent. of undoubted nutriment; and lastly, that it is highly probable that their so-called indigestible woody fibre is to a great extent assimilable. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
Sometimes known as the Hoosier Gardener, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp lives in Indianapolis, where she manages perennials and woody plants for a large, independent garden center. Fall in the Midwest: Colors are subtle but lasting
Were the first angiosperms woody trees and shrubs, or were they small herbs?
In this subzone, herbaceous dicots, grasses, rushes, and cryptogams are dominant, and woody plants and sedges are absent.
If a dead tree is still standing, we leave it, as we do with woody debris on the forest floor.
A length of unidentifiable brown woody tree bark, possibly cinnamon -- meaning unknown.
Not everyone wants a weedy or untidy garden, but we could encourage more insect food by planting more trees, woody shrubs and wall climbers.
Any hard, woody materials -- Howard called them "refractory" -- must be thoroughly broken up before composting, otherwise the fermentation would not be vigorous, rapid, and uniform throughout the process. Organic Gardener's Composting
Now I have a temporary desk space in the upstairs back room we're using as a library, very cosy and snug, and a view over the belt of woody scrubland at the back of the estate.
Istanbul is inscribed on the map of unatoned crimes, closer to Raskolnikov's Petersburg than to Woody Allen's London in ‘Matchpoint’.
The woody hay backnotes were provided by burning a blend I had made that included synthetic deertongue oil, cedarwood and assorted warm notes like cistus labdanum and helichrysium.
To steam asparagus spears, snap off and discard woody bases from fresh asparagus.
A solid component of woody biomass called lignin remains and is burned to provide energy for the process. NYT > Home Page
THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear curved torulose silicules. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
This is a city prone to paranoia at the best of times, as personified by that quintessential New Yorker, Woody Allen.
Rarely, permineralized wood (which faithfully preserves the woody texture of the original wood) is found closely associated with the limb casts.
The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Vast, mountainous, woody, and lightly populated, Algeria offered terrain favorable to guerrilla warfare.
Bulbs can do well in many areas where herbs and grass can't, such as woody areas.
Therefore combinations of these fibers in any composition of non-amylaceous fiber (ligneous or woody fiber) will be dissolved, leaving the latter unharmed; the woody fibers remaining will prove suitable objects for examination under the microscope. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and oribi (Ourebia ourebi) also frequent extensive floodplains and grasslands, although the latter favor less waterlogged areas such as termitaries, where herbs and woody growth provide food and cover. Zambezian flooded grasslands
This energetic, sensual and woody fragrance contains a dash of tangerine and pine scents.
The combined dependent variables were herb cover, woody seedling density, and ground level plant species richness.
These consisted chiefly of quartz, felspar, and a silicious petrifaction of woody appearance. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

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