hairy


Definition: Meaning of, hairy in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈhɛːri /

  • adjective
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hairy hairier hairiest
  1. a hairy person or animal has a lot of hair on their body
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  2. informal dangerous or frightening, often in a way that is exciting
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hairy used in phrases

  • hairy darling pea (noun)
    1. shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to pink flowers
  • hairy finger grass (noun)
    1. a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States
  • hairy golden aster (noun)
    1. hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis
  • hairy honeysuckle (noun)
    1. twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America
  • hairy lip fern (noun)
    1. small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly
  • hairy root (noun)
    1. especially in apples a phase of crown gall during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots
  • hairy spurge (noun)
    1. much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America
  • hairy tare (noun)
    1. european vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
  • hairy tongue (noun)
    1. a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue
  • hairy vetch (noun)
    1. european vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
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