woolly : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a variety of adelgid
  Adelges piceae.
  

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• noun woolly thistle of western and central Europe and Balkan Peninsula
  Cirsium eriophorum.
  

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• noun an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree
  

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• noun attacks alders
  Prociphilus tessellatus.
  

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• noun secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
  woolly aphid.
  

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• noun primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees
  American blight; Eriosoma lanigerum.
  

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• noun caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs; feed on plants and some are destructive pests
  woolly bear.
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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).

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• noun caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs; feed on plants and some are destructive pests
  woolly bear.
  

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• noun larva of moth of the family Arctiidae
  

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• (Bot.), an Australian tree (Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark.

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• noun tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum
  dwarf daisy; Antheropeas wallacei; Eriophyllum wallacei.
  

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• noun nocturnal indris with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
  Avahi laniger.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Schizoneura, ∨ 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.

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• (Zoöl.), the mongoose lemur.

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• (Zoöl.), a long-tailed lemur (Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; called also avahi, and woolly lemur.

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• noun very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere
  northern mammoth; Mammuthus primigenius.
  

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• noun erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young
  Arctostaphylos tomentosa; downy manzanita.
  

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• noun large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins
  

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• (Zoöl.), any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro.

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• noun tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
  common mullein; Aaron's rod; great mullein; torch; flannel mullein; Verbascum thapsus.
  

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• noun secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
  woolly aphid.
  

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• noun extinct thick-haired species of Arctic regions
  Rhinoceros antiquitatis.
  

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• (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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• noun any plant of the genus Eriophyllum
  

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• noun biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers; naturalized in North America
  Scotch thistle; Onopordon acanthium; cotton thistle; Onopordum acanthium.
  
• noun thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves
  Cirsium flodmanii.
  

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• adjective satellite covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
  wooly; wooly-haired; woolly.
  
  • woolly lambs

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Wool"ly-head` noun

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1. A negro. Low

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• adjective satellite confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  wooly; muddled; muzzy; addled; woolly; befuddled; wooly-minded.
  
  • muddleheaded ideas
  • your addled little brain
  • woolly thinking
  • woolly-headed ideas

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• adjective satellite having a woolly stem
  

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