What's the difference between herbaceous and woody?

Herbaceous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Volumetric levels of pollens derived from broad-leaved herbaceous plant species heve been determined at a midwestern urban site with suction and rotating arm samplers.
  • (2) Drinks at Jade Bar are in keeping with the spa setting: fruity and herbaceous “muddles” (alcoholic or not) are a speciality, and the bartenders host mixology sessions on Sundays, or by appointment.
  • (3) In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, larvae and nymphs of Ablyomma marmoreum Koch occur in habitats in which there is tree cover and herbaceous ground cover.
  • (4) Farmers are battling with new and variant diseases, and globalisation has meant a huge increase in the risk of new plant diseases, affecting everything from crops to people's herbaceous borders.
  • (5) Sieve cells and sieve tube members can be macerated from the phloem of various organs of woody and herbaceous species by autoclaving the tissue in a mild macerating medium.
  • (6) Herbaceous taxa were well represented in the atmospheric sample.
  • (7) Beware, however, that even if you manage to remove a large proportion of the blighters, they are likely to repopulate your herbaceous borders alarmingly quickly.
  • (8) Based on an inferred phylogeny, the catalytic domain of ChiX is more closely related to the basic chitinases of herbaceous plants than are either Win6 or Win8.
  • (9) Bacteria were obtained from 30% of the ovules, 15% of the seeds of herbaceous plants, 16% of the seeds of woody plants, 5.4% of the overwintered noncereal seeds, and 13.5% of overwintered cereal seeds.
  • (10) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDS) were used to localize manganese from KMnO4, and bromine, as ultrastructural stains for lignin in an herbaceous plant.
  • (11) It might be tricky to limit your time at this Elizabethan mansion, with its parkland sculpture trails, wonderful herbaceous borders and a prize-winning produce garden.
  • (12) Herbaceous piths appear to be a vital resource for African forest apes, offering an alternative energy supply when fruits are scarce.
  • (13) The botanical origin specified in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia (1985 edition) includes the dried herbaceous stems of Ephedra sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge and E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey.
  • (14) Practise the "Chelsea chop" (so called because it is done around Flower Show time, the end of May), according to how much growth has developed, cutting back by half herbaceous plants such as the taller sedums, asters, phlox, heleniums and chrysanthemums to reduce transpiration and encourage them to make bushier plants that won't need staking.
  • (15) Most fruity, floral, minty, and herbaceous odorants stimulate the enzyme.
  • (16) Infusions and decoctions of the leaves, roots and inflorescences of the herbaceous shrub Chenopodium ambrosioides (American wormseed, goosefoot, epazote, paico) and related species indigenous to the New World have been used for centuries as dietary condiments and as traditional anthelmintics by native peoples for the treatment of intestinal worms.
  • (17) The method enabled the highly sensitive detection of a number of morphologically different viruses in purified preparations and in unclarified extracts of herbaceous hosts and of infected crop plants.
  • (18) It is also found that the degree of lignification of fibres and medullary cells of the herbaceous stems is related to the positions and diameters of the stems.
  • (19) In an attempt to correlate the high incidence of esophageal carcinoma in natives of certain places with their habit of using herbaceous folk medicines, we performed bioassays of several plant extracts and the fractions prepared from them.
  • (20) Chinese herbal remedies are derived from animal, mineral, as well as arboreous and herbaceous sources.

Woody


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
  • (2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
  • (3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
  • (4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
  • (5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
  • (6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
  • (7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
  • (8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
  • (9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
  • (10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
  • (11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
  • (12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
  • (13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
  • (14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
  • (15) Woody Allen's nakedly auto­biographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
  • (16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
  • (17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
  • (18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
  • (19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
  • (20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.