hoary : Idioms & Phrases
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hoary alison
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noun tall European annual with downy grey-green foliage and dense heads of small white flowers followed by hairy pods; naturalized in North America; sometimes a troublesome weed
Berteroa incana; hoary alison.
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hoary alyssum
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noun tall European annual with downy grey-green foliage and dense heads of small white flowers followed by hairy pods; naturalized in North America; sometimes a troublesome weed
Berteroa incana; hoary alison.
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Hoary bat
(Zoöl.) , an American bat (Atalapha cinerea ), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
Webster 1913
hoary golden bush
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noun western American shrubs having white felted foliage and yellow flowers that become red-purple
Hazardia cana.
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hoary marmot
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noun large North American mountain marmot
whistler; Marmota caligata; whistling marmot.
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hoary pea
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noun a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods
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hoary plantain
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noun North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves
Plantago virginica.
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noun widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers
Plantago media.
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hoary puccoon
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noun perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
Indian paint; Lithospermum canescens.
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hoary willow
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noun North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves
Salix candida; sage willow.
