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Answer for the clue "(Of a face) sprouting hair ", 8 letters:
whiskery

Word definitions for whiskery in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having whiskers; bewhiskered. 2 (context humorous English) old

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: bearded , barbate , bewhiskered , whiskered ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Whiskery (foaled 1924 - died 1937 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse . He was the winner of the 1927 Kentucky Derby after defeating Osmand by a nose in the stretch. Whiskery won the Ardsley Handicap at age two and the Chesapeake Stakes at age three. ...

Usage examples of whiskery.

Like the little hexies, both ends had the same whiskery tendrils sprouting from a bulbous, snoutless appendage that might be a head.

As for the rest of my infancy, it is a passing lantern-show of swaddling bands, sore gums, wooden rattles, tops, hoops, rods, whips, tears, tantrums, messed underclothes, pulled hair, grazed knees, teeth left under pillows, burning candlewax, stone flags, water-rats, whiskery old aunts, causeless laughter and unreined grief.

In the fridge he had also found blackening avocadoes, tomatoes spotted with grey, whiskery sweetcorn and mouldy cheese.

Hoddan astonishedly regarded his whiskery countenance, contorted with grief and dampened with tears.

Norman turned and a brown bat flew into his face, snapping at him with its whiskery mouth as its wings battered against his cheeks.

Today, his pale, whiskery body would be physically reincorporated with the magnetohydrodynamic Shell.