"woodly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:",
          "text": "So saying, by the hand he took me raised, And over fields and waters, as in air, Smooth sliding without step, last led me up A woodly mountain; whose high top was plain, A circuit wide enclosed, with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers;",
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          "text": "Argonne, a woodly tract in France, partly in Upper Champagne, and partly in the Lower Barrois.",
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          "text": "It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.",
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        "Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy."
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        "(dated) Covered in trees; Wooded; woodsy."
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          "ref": "1910, The Encyclopedia Britannica, page 781:",
          "text": "Cuttings of bedding plants may nnow be made freely if wanted for next season, as young cuttings rooted in the fall make soft-wooded plants as pelargoniums, fuchsias, verbenas, heliotropes, &c.' with roses and plants of a woodly nature, however , the old plants usually do best.",
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          "ref": "1976, Port Royal Harbor Maintenance Dredging, page 13:",
          "text": "These are Sarracenia rubra which occurs in bogs and savannahs and Schisandra glabra a woodly vine found in rich woods .",
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          "ref": "2021, Mohammed Kuddus, Microbial Extremozymes, page 156:",
          "text": "In some regions of the African continent and South America, cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is a woodly shrub, is consumed boiled or fermented (Fossi and Ndjouenkeu, 2017).",
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        "Having tough, woody stems; woody."
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        "Madly; furiously."
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        },
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