From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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}]
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