noun
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A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
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A sheep not yet shorn.
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A piece of woolwork.
adjective
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Made of wool.
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Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
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Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
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There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
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(of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic.
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That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
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Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
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Clothed in wool.
Examples of woolly in a Sentence
There is also a thick woolly under-fur, shed in summer, when the whole coat comes off in blanket-like masses.
It should be added that young Asiatic elephants often show considerable traces of the woolly coat of the mammoth.
Their hair is not woolly but straight and long.
The Russian setter has a woolly and matted coat.
They are black, with woolly hair, and in their eyes and countenances there is something quite frightful ....
Their hair is dark, generally soft, never woolly.
As proved by the discovery of fossil remains, musk-oxen ranged during the Pleistocene period over northern Siberia and the plains of Germany and France, their bones occurring in river-deposits along with those of the reindeer, mammoth, and woolly rhinoceros.
The trees which form dense forest and scrub in southern Patagonia and in Fuegia are absent, and one of the largest plants on the islands is a gigantic woolly ragweed (Senecio candicans) which attains in some places a height of 3 to 4 ft..
It has either a woolly coat similar to a Poodle, or a fleece coat similar to the undercoat of a dog.
A. lanata has woolly silvery leaves, and grows well in any soil not too damp.
Bourgcei from Armenia, are characterised by woolly leaves and are dwarfer habited.
Its young leaves are downy but wear smooth, remaining grey and woolly beneath, ovate in shape, and 4 1/2 inches long by 2 1/2 wide.
The flower-clusters appear in May and June upon short woolly stalks, the small white flowers flushed with pink, and succeeded by bright scarlet berries.
Viburnum Dahuricum - A spreading shrub of 5 to 8 feet, with grey stems and small woolly leaves.
A variety C. hirsuta is covered with stiff down, and looks almost woolly.
G. Fischeri is a handsome plant; its snow-white woolly foliage is very telling, and its blossom is of an unusual flame color.
Phlomis Cashmeriana - At its best a striking plant, about 2 feet high, with densely woolly stems and leaves, and heavily crowded whorls of pale lilac or rosy-purple flowers, from the end of July.
The white woolly leaves and stems render it conspicuous even when out of flower.
America is a pretty plant of 1 to 2 feet, with woolly leaves and yellow flowers 2 inches across, from July to September.
Lyalli, with woolly leaves of a long heart-shape and large pure white flowers with a bunch of golden stamens, drooping gracefully in clusters upon long stems from the tips of the previous seasons growth.
It is a woolly plant, 2 feet to 3 feet high, bearing many rosy-crimson flowers in summer and autumn; easily raised from seed, excellent for borders, beds, and naturalisation on dry banks.
Old growers of the Stock assert that while the under side of the leaf of the Queen Stock is rough and woolly, the leaf of the Brompton Stock is smooth on both sides.
Throughout the northern regions of both hemispheres there are several breeds of semi-domesticated dogs which are wolf-like, with erect ears and long woolly hair.
They have the fleshy stems characteristic of the order, these being either globose, oblong or cylindrical, and either ribbed as in Melocactus, or broken up into distinct tubercles, and most of them armed with stiff sharp pines, set in little woolly cushions occupying the place of the buds.
The species are numerous, and are distinguished one from another by the scales of the bulb being woolly or smooth on the inner surface, by the character of the flower-stalks, by the filaments being hairy or otherwise, and by other characters.
The hair is naturally dark, but is often dyed red or fawn, and crisp, inclining to woolly.
They inhabit the desolate plateau of Tibet, at elevations of between 13,000 and 18,000 ft., and, like all Tibetan animals, have a firm thick coat, formed in this instance of close woolly hair of a grey fawn-colour.
Asiatic, including Japanese, skins are more woolly.
The Canadian are silky in nature and inclined to a creamy colour, while the Siberian are more woolly and rather whiter.
It has a very long neck and exceedingly soft woolly fur of a light reddish-fawn colour with very white flanks.
The rock wallabies are soft and woolly and often of a pretty bluish tone, and make moderately useful carriage rugs and perambulator aprons.
Is of a woolly nature with rather coarse top hair and quite yellow in colour.
The Egyptian goose (chenalopex) is figured in the XVIIIth dynasty as sacred to Ammon; but his most frequent and celebrated incarnation was the woolly sheep with curved (" Ammon") horns (as opposed to the oldest native breed with long horizontal twisted horns and hairy coat, sacred to Khnum or Chnumis).
The ears are short and rounded; the toes of the broad feet very imperfectly separated; the tail is well developed, with a terminal tuft; and the straight hair is not woolly.
Hairy covering long and woolly.
In cold weather Pathans and other border residents wear posteens, sleeved coats made of sheepskin with the woolly side in.
The recently extinct Siberian mammoth and woolly rhinoceros were closely allied to species now inhabiting tropical regions exclusively.
The branches and corolla are purple, the fruit woolly.
In the genus Cycas the female flower is peculiar among cycads in consisting of a terminal crown of separate leaf-like carpels several inches in length; the apical portion of each carpellary leaf may be broadly triangular in form, and deeply dissected on the margins into narrow woolly appendages like rudimentary pinnae.
The leaves at once invite a comparison with ferns; the numerous long hairs which form a delicate woolly covering on young leaves recall the hairs of certain ferns, but agree more closely with the long filamentous hairs of recent cycads.
As it lacks the thick woolly coat of the two Tibetan antelopes known as the chiru and the goa, there can be little doubt that it inhabits a country with a less severe climate than that of the Central Tibetan plateau, and it is probably a native of the more or less wooded districts of comparatively low elevation forming the outskirts of Tibet.
On the other hand, since the socalled peat-sheep of the prehistoric Swiss lake-dwellers appears to be represented by the existing Graubunden (Grisons) breed, which is woolly and coloured something like a Southdown, it may be argued that the former was probably also woolly, and hence that the survival of a hairy breed in a neighbouring part of Europe would be unlikely.
In fat-tailed sheep, on the other hand, which have much the same distribution, the coat is woolly and generally piebald.
The hair is not woolly, the general build is rather stout, and the limbs are of moderate length and slenderness.
They are pretty little animals, varying from the size of a small cat to less than that of a rat, with large eyes and ears, soft woolly fur and long tails.
The fur is remarkable for the preponderance of the beautifully soft woolly under-fur, the longer stiffer hairs being scanty.
They had coarse, short, woolly hair and Papuan features.
The Semang, as they are most usually called by the Malays, are Negritos - a small, very dark people, with features of the negroid type, very prognathous, and with short, woolly hair clinging to the scalp in tiny crisp curls.
She took enough pain meds to numb a horse, but her arm still hurt, and her head was woolly from the drugs.
In the winter coat the hair is long and pendent, elongated into a short beard on the sides of the lower jaw behind the chin; and it is also longer than elsewhere on the neck and the chest; at the base of the long hair is a thick growth of short and woolly under-fur.