lignify

Meaning

Verb

  • To become wood.
  • To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
  • To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
  • To turn into wood; to make ligneous.

Origin

  • From Latin lÄ«gnum -ify.

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