Woolly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Woolly \Wool"ly\, a.
     1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly
        fleece.
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     2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. "My fleece of


        woolly hair." --Shak.
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     3. Clothed with wool. "Woolly breeders." --Shak.
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     4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling
        wool.
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     {Woolly bear} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), the mongoose lemur.
  
     {Woolly maki} (Zool.), a long-tailed lemur ({Indris laniger})
        native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; --
        called also {avahi}, and {woolly lemur}.
  
     {Woolly monkey} (Zool.), 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  woolly
       adj 1: having a fluffy character or appearance [syn: {flocculent},
              {wooly}]
       2: 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}]
       3: covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly
          lambs" [syn: {wooly}]
       4: covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the
          woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton" [syn: {lanate}]
       [also: {woolliest}, {woollier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "woolly":
     bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent,
     flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate,
     matted, pilose, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, whiskered