Crossword clues for woolly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woolly \Wool"ly\, a.
Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. ``My fleece of woolly hair.''
--Shak.Clothed with wool. ``Woolly breeders.''
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(Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
Woolly bear (Zo["o]l.), 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).
Woolly butt (Bot.), an Australian tree ( Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark.
Woolly louse (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Woolly macaco (Zo["o]l.), the mongoose lemur.
Woolly maki (Zo["o]l.), a long-tailed lemur ( Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; -- called also avahi, and woolly lemur.
Woolly monkey (Zo["o]l.), any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro.
Woolly rhinoceros (Paleon.), 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
Etymology 1 a. 1 Made of wool. 2 Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. 3 (context figuratively English) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic. 4 (context figuratively English) unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy. 5 (context obsolete English) Clothed in wool. n. (context informal English) A sweater or similar garment made of wool Etymology 2
n. (context Liverpool pejorative English) Someone not born in Liverpool (especially from the towns of Wigan, St Helen's, Widnes, Warrington and Runcorn).
WordNet
adj. having a fluffy character or appearance [syn: flocculent, wooly]
confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded]
covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs" [syn: wooly]
covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton" [syn: lanate]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "woolly".
She was wearing zip-up furry bootees, three cardigans, an overcoat, a new woolly scarf Genevieve had bought her, and her best hat.
These woolly beasts, heads held high and facing the valley floor, were not unlike humpless camels.
A small herd of giant deer, whose extravagant palmate antlers made the large rack of the moose seem small, were feeding along the outer fringe of woolly willows clustered in the damp lowland near the water.
These are compact little bundles, at first of a dull yellow colour, until presently the florets fall off and leave the white woolly pappus of the seeds collected together, somewhat resembling the hoary hairs of age.
The woolly mammoths were well adapted to the harsh periglacial climate of their cold environment.
I got something, but only after a prolonged hard fight against the woolly theme of being safe everywhere.
Then we could rustle all your woolly flock and eat sheot shashlik until the end of time.
She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down.
The sky was stormily red in the east, and masses of woolly clouds were banking in the north.
One was a Trog named Torve, a light brown, woolly, six foot tall toad.
Longtusk had a dense underfur of fine woolly hair that covered almost all his skin.
She ran her own trunk fingers through his long guard hairs, finding the woolly underfur beneath.
She also noticed headbands and belts, and across the shoulders of the girl, a cape with fascinating designs that were worked into a material which appeared to have been constructed out of strands of the underwool shed by the passing woolly beasts.
Surire Park was not the nature preserve of the woolly vicunas and viscachas he had read about.
Despite their nine months together, Sonny is still not certain whether the woolly Afro Marietta wears is a wig.