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.
WordNet
n. large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins
Wikipedia
The woolly monkeys are the genus Lagothrix of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae.
The four species of woolly monkey all originate from the rainforests of South America. They have prehensile tails and live in relatively large social groups.
One species of woolly monkey, the yellow-tailed woolly monkey, has recently been placed in the genus Oreonax.
Usage examples of "woolly monkey".
In recent years, customs inspectors in Florida have arrested a woman trying to smuggle in a rare woolly monkey by hiding it in her overcoat, and a man wearing a vest with special pockets to carry his Australian-palm-cockatoo eggs, and a man carrying a toy Teddy bear stuffed with live tortoises, and a man with a live boa constrictor under his shirt, and a man with pygmy marmosets in his fanny pack.