hoary
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9.8
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːri/
- Specialized
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- While hiking, we came across a beautiful patch of hoary marmots, their fur covered with soft white hairs.
Examples
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Her robe is wet and smells of pine needles and of something else too that suggests hoary lichen in chinked rock.
Fiction book (1993) -
Major weed targets now include leafy spurge, saltcedar, Russian and yellow starthistle, Russian knapweed, and perennial mustards such as hoary cress.
Academic text (2000) -
Workers had just finished filling up a giant basket with those hoary melons.
Fiction book (1991) -
About three-fourths of the deaths come from just three species: eastern red, hoary, and silver-haired bats.
Academic text (2008) -
No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own.
Academic text (2004) -
The koa rose ahead, massive trunks trailing yards of mossy vines, great hoary giants rooted in time.
Fiction book (1992) -
The grass, ropy as kelp, is rank with beaded, unripe ragweed and hoary dandelions.
Academic text (1999) -
As I walked through the forest, I noticed the hoary juniper trees, their fine white hairs shimmering in the sunlight.
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The hoary dandelions in the meadow were easily spotted due to their distinctive white-downy appearance.
Synonyms
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1.1
Covered with soft light hairs like kitten fur
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4.2
Soft and having many fine, light hairs or feathers
Having a light grey or whitish colour and often covered in fine pale hairs
A plant surface that has fine, short, soft hairs
A surface with fine, soft hairs like a furry leaf
Covered with soft fine hairs like down
A surface with fine soft hairs that look like silk
A surface covered in many short soft hairs
With a surface covered in fine soft hairs
Compounds
- Specialized
A tall annual plant with soft grey-green leaves and small white flowers often seen as a weed
- Specialized
A small European plant with grey green fuzzy leaves, many small white flowers, often a weed
- Specialized
A shrub from western North America with soft white leaves and yellow flowers that turn red-purple
- US
A large North American ground squirrel with silvery gray fur that lives in mountains
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Etymology
Hoary comes from an old English word hār meaning 'grey' or 'white' and is related to the common word hair. That is why hoary can describe plants or animals covered in fine white hairs, giving them a silvery look.