"lignify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈlɪɡnɪfaɪ/ Audio: en-us-lignify.ogg [US] Forms: lignifies [present, singular, third-person], lignifying [participle, present], lignified [participle, past], lignified [past]
Etymology: From Latin līgnum (“wood”) + -ify. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|līgnum||wood}} Latin līgnum (“wood”), {{suffix|en||ify}} + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} lignify (third-person singular simple present lignifies, present participle lignifying, simple past and past participle lignified)
  1. (intransitive) To become wood. Tags: intransitive Translations (to become wood): verhouten (Dutch), lignifier (French), verholzen (German), lignificare (Italian), деревяне́ть (derevjanétʹ) (Russian), деревене́ть (derevenétʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-lignify-en-verb--7uD6HSP Disambiguation of 'to become wood': 72 1 14 13
  2. (intransitive, botany) To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-lignify-en-verb-yBV0ZyhU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ify, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 52 40 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ify: 10 45 31 14 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 7 45 36 12 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  3. (intransitive, by extension) To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood. Tags: broadly, intransitive
    Sense id: en-lignify-en-verb-Gwi0mRVT
  4. (transitive) To turn into wood; to make ligneous. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-lignify-en-verb-cZ6LG3sS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: lignification

Inflected forms

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