Word Finder - hairy

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Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.

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a hairy man

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Of an animal, having a lot of fur.

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hairy mammoth

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Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.

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She is a great admirer of hairy chests.

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Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.

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It’s a hairy problem, and will probably take several weeks to sort out.

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Causing anxiety or fright; terrifying, scary.

Young Indian elephants are hairy, thus showing affinity with the mammoth.

Hairy covering long and woolly.

The tail is generally long and hairy.

Denisov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, looking with a scared face at his comrade for help.

They are herbaceous perennials, generally with hairy serrated leaves and handsome flowers.

The female can protrude a long flexible tube in connexion with the eighth segment, carrying the sclerites of the ninth at its extremity, and these sclerites may carry short hairy processes A B D.yrnt,sc/'rle moathd ..

The beetles are hairy and their larvae well-armoured and often predaceous.

With the stocks, when a whiteflowered and hairless form is crossed with a cream-flowered and hairless one, all the offspring are purple and hairy.

C. umbellate, 3 to 4 in., much branched, with narrow hairy leaves, and corymbs of magenta-crimson flowers in the summer months.

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).

It was black and white, as hairy as a skye-terrier, and as large as a medium-sized spaniel.

Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.

His surname "of Antequera" was given him because he was besieging that town, then in the hands of the Moors, when he was told that the cortes of Aragon had elected him king in succession to his uncle Martin, the last male of the old line of Wilfred the Hairy.

In all the fore-limbs have five and the hind four digits; and the similar to those covering the legs; the inner surface of the cheeks being hairy.

Mayflies and dragon-flies danced in the sunlight; lizards darted across the paths; and legions of spiders pervaded the grass, many very beautiful - frosted - silver backs, or curious, like the saltigrades, who took a few steps and then gave a leap. There were crickets in infinite numbers; and flies innumerable, from slim daddy-long-legs to ponderous, black, hairy fellows known to science as Dejeaniae; hymenopterous insects in profusion, including our old friend the bishop of Ambato (possibly Dielis), in company with another formidable stinger, with chrome antennae, called by the natives ` the Devil '; and occasional Phasmas (caballo de palo) crawling painfully about, like animated twigs."

The appearance of the heavy-bodied hairy Bombi is well known.

In all these antelopes long cylindrical horns are present in both sexes; the muzzle is hairy; there is no gland below the eye; the tail is long and tufted; and in the breadth of their tall crowns the upper molar-teeth resemble those of the oxen.

The flowers, which appear in March and April, are borne on pendulous hairy catkins, 2 -3 in.

Small, hairy, black pigs, and fowls, are universal.

The bark of the older stems is of a bright brown, mottled with grey, that of the young twigs is ash-coloured, and glandular and hairy.

The wombat of Tasmania and the islands of Bass's Straits (P. ursinus), and the closely similar but larger P. platyrhinus of the southern portion of the mainland of Australia, belong to this group. On the other hand, in the hairy-nosed wombat (P. latifrons) of Southern Australia, the fur is smooth and silky; the ears are large and more pointed; the muzzle is hairy; the frontal region of the skull is broader than in the other section, with well-marked postorbital processes; and there are thirteen ribs.

Man differs from them in the absence of a hairy coat; in the development of a large lobule to the external ear; in his fully erect attitude; in his flattened foot with the non-opposable great toe; in the straight limb-bones; in the wider pelvis; in the marked sigmoid flexure of his spine; in the perfection of the muscular movements of the arm; in the delicacy of hand; in the smallness of the canine teeth and other dental peculiarities; in the development of a chin; and in the small size of his jaws compared to the relatively great size of the cranium.

The South Australian Caloprymnus campestris represents a genus near akin to the last, but with the edge of the hairy border of the bare muzzle less emarginate in the middle line, still more swollen auditory bullae, very large and posterially expanded nasals and longer vacuities on the palate.

The flowers are regular and symmetrical, having five sepals, tapering to a point and hairy on the margin, five petals which speedily fall, ten stamens, and a pistil bearing five distinct styles.

The pioneers of the jute industry, who did not understand this necessity, or rather who did not know how the woody and brittle character of the fibre could be remedied, were greatly perplexed by the difficulties they had to encounter, the fibre spinning badly into a hard, rough and hairy yarn owing to the splitting and breaking of the fibre.

The genus agrees with Dorcopsis in the direction of the hair on the neck, but the muzzle is only partially hairy, and the elongation of the penultimate premolar is less.

The list is completed by Aepyprymnus rufescens, which differs from all the others by the hairy muzzle, and the absence of inflation in the auditory bullae and of vacuities in the palate.

The female is of much smaller size, and more slender; and, though the general tone of the hairy parts of the body is the same, the prominences, furrows, and colouring of the face are much less marked.

They have elongated hind-limbs and long hairy tails; and progress by leaps, in the same manner as jerboas, from which they differ in having five hind-toes.

Like goats, sheep have narrow upper molar teeth, very different from those of the oxen, and narrow hairy muzzles.

The long-legged hairy sheep, which stands a good deal taller than a Southdown, ranges, with a certain amount of local variation, from Lower Guinea to the Cape.

Early in the 19th century the old Wiltshire white-faced horned sheep, with a scanty coat of hairy wool, and the Berkshire Knot, roamed over the downs of their native counties.

Many mammals have a longer hairy coat in winter, which is shed as summer comes on; and some few, which inhabit countries covered in winter with snow, as the Arctic fox, variable hare and ermine, undergo a complete change of colour in the two seasons, being white in winter and grey or brown in summer.

Wilfred the Hairy the Comes Vellosus, so called because his countship was poor and covered with scrub wood, and not because the palms of his hands were covered with hair as the legend has itbecame the founder of the counts of Barcelona.

The shrunken hairy beige armadillo happily sniffed at the three-day old spam fritter.

Hi again everyone, Janine, I had to laugh, congrats on the hairy armpits - crazy or what?

Choose to be served by barmaids with no teeth and hairy noses.

You need not in imagination adopt the hairy garments, or smear yourself with oil, or eat raw blubber.

The flower's petals are enclosed by hairy green bracts.

Cedric Gillings exhibited examples of the bulbous buttercup and for comparison, the much rarer hairy buttercup.

Mechanical injury by hairy calyx can occur (Muenscher 1951 ).

The black hairy caterpillar is quite a contrast to the clean cut lines of the adult.

From here we head to Argyll with a stop to see hairy coos!

Relay Race by David Yehudah, Bellflower, CA, USA These little hairy varmint critters never fail to amaze me.

The skin with hair follicles, hairy skin, e.g. on the scalp, has a thin epidermis and many sebaceous glands.

With a deep growl, I unfolded my massive, hairy body from the suddenly too-small bathroom.

H by Heidi & Erin (aged 12) Heidi's habitat has hairy hags.

One each, please, for the time being - could all get a bit hairy later.

The upper surface is rough to the touch, the lower more softly hairy.

From our vantage point on Munro three, the route looked pretty hairy!