Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ligneous

Ligneous (lig"ne*us) , adjective

[Latin ligneus, from lignum wood. Compare Lignous.]

Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. — Bacon
Collocations (1)
Ligneous marble , wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.