Hypertext Webster Gateway: "woolly"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Woolly \Wool"ly\, a.
1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly
fleece.

2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. ``My fleece of
woolly hair.'' --Shak.

3. Clothed with wool. ``Woolly breeders.'' --Shak.

4. (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, or
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]


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