a. rare or Obs. [ad. L. lignōs-us, f. lign-um wood: see -OUS.] = LIGNEOUS.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort., July (1679), 21. Slip Stocks, and other lignous Plants and Flowers.
1673. Phil. Trans., VIII. 6133. Its [the skin of a Root] compounding parts, likewise Parenchymous, and Lignous.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 38. The Lignous Body is a Substance whose Contexture is more … close than that of the Bark.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 229. The nut or shell appears as if it had been composed of lignous fibres strongly interwoven.
1831. J. Davies, Man. Mat. Med., 75. The remainder is a lignous substance.
1855. Mayne, Expos. Lex., s.v. Lignosus.
