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