| Pronunciation: | | 'howree
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| Matching Terms: | | hoar, hoard, hoarded wealth, hoarder, hoarding, hoards, hoare powerdomain, hoared, hoarfrost, hoarhound, hoariness, hoarse, hoarsely, hoarsen, hoarseness, hoarstone, hoary alison, hoary alyssum, hoary golden bush, hoary marmot, hoary pea, hoary plantain, hoary puccoon, hoary willow
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- [adj] (biology) covered with fine whitish hairs or down
- [adj] ancient; "hoary jokes"
- [adj] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
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| | Synonyms: | | canescent, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, hairy, hirsute, hoar, old, rusty, white-haired |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hoar"y\, a.
1. White or whitish. ``The hoary willows.'' --Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] --Knolles.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs;
canescent.
{Hoary bat} (Zo["o]l.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea}),
having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Covered with a greyish layer of very short, closely interwoven hairs. |
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