woodify

English

Etymology

wood +‎ -ify

Verb

woodify (third-person singular simple present woodifies, present participle woodifying, simple past and past participle woodified)

1. To become wood, or woodlike.
   • 1987, John E. Malmstad, Andrey Bely: Spirit of Symbolism, page 158:

     I thought: — — the "x"'s sprout in a shoot from the little lecture notebooks: in a greening, murmuring leaflet — from the swelling bud; they woodify as twigs; and they stick out afterwards.