Woolly

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool.
  • adjective. Resembling wool.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Lacking sharp detail or clarity.
  • adjective. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear.
  • adjective. Rough, disorderly, or unrestrained.
  • noun. A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.
  • noun. A sheep.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Con sisting of wool; fleecy: as, the woolly coat of the sheep, of a young seal, etc.
  • Resembling wool; exhibiting woolliness; having the appearance of wool: as, woolly hair; woolly clouds.
  • Clothed or covered with wool, or something like it; pubescent; flocculent.
  • In hot., covered with a pubescence of long and soft hairs like wool; lanate; tomentose.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of wool.
  • adjective. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
  • adjective. Clothed with wool.
  • adjective. Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
  • adjective. the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth (Spilosoma Virginica).
  • adjective. an Australian tree (Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark.
  • adjective. a plant louse (Schizoneura lanigera syn Erisoma lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight.
  • adjective. the mongoose lemur.
  • adjective. a long-tailed lemur (Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; -- called also avahi, and woolly lemur.
  • adjective. any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro.
  • adjective. an extinct rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Made of wool.
  • adjective. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
  • adjective. Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
  • adjective. having a fluffy character or appearance
  • adjective. covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
  • adjective. confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  • Word Usage
    "Brenden wants a two-year moratorium on relocating bison until state officials write a management plan for what he calls "woolly tanks" that can wreak havoc on crops and land."
    Equivalent
    confused  haired  hairy  hirsute  soft  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Woolley  bully  fully  pulley  wooley  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    curly  downy  filmy  fleecy  fluffy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bristly  bushy  cirrose  downy  feathery  
    variant