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
n. ''Coelodonta antiquitatis'', an extinct rhinoceros, common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.
WordNet
n. extinct thick-haired species of arctic regions [syn: Rhinoceros antiquitatis]
Wikipedia
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and survived the last glacial period. The genus name Coelodonta means "cavity tooth". The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna.
Usage examples of "woolly rhinoceros".
Anon a woolly rhinoceros, resembling the Rhinoceros tichorhinus that existed contemporaneously on earth with the mammoth, came to drink the water that had partly cooled.
I knew Mog-ur was right when he said Broud's totem was the Woolly Rhinoceros.
Broud clutched his spear tighter and reached for his amulet in a pleading gesture to the Woolly Rhinoceros to give him courage and a strong arm.
Just on the other side, swaying from side to side as he shifted his massive tonnage from one foot to the other, was a huge, double-horned, woolly rhinoceros.
With a piece of knucklebone-Ayla thought it came from a woolly rhinoceros -- Tronie mashed the seeds to a paste.
Presently the vegetation thrashed and bent and cracked again, and a great woolly rhinoceros burst out.
A woolly rhinoceros, adapted to a cold climate, and the mammoth, a big woolly cousin of the elephants, the Arctic musk ox and the reindeer passed across the scene.
The second horn on the woolly rhinoceros ought to slant forward more.
Now he was after the only major trophy that had eluded him: the woolly rhinoceros.
You never see her around campus, but that don't mean much because the goddamn campus is so big and crowded that you might not see a woolly rhinoceros around campus.
Just before making camp we were charged by an enormous woolly rhinoceros, which Plesser dropped with a perfect shot.
That expansion may have been responsible for the extinction of Eurasia's woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.