lignify

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) To become wood.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) , (botany) : To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) , (''by extension''): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To turn into wood; to make ligneous.

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