What is "atalapha cinerea"

Hoary \Hoar"y\, a.

1. White or whitish. ``The hoary willows.''
   --Addison.

2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.

   Reverence the hoary head.
   --Dr. T. Dwight.

3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.]
   --Knolles.

5. (Zo["o]l.) Of a pale silvery gray.

6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.

   Hoary bat (Zo["o]l.), an American bat ( Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.