woolly

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

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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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