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adjective
1.
consisting of wool: a woolly fleece.
2.
resembling wool in texture or appearance: woolly hair.
3.
clothed or covered with wool or something resembling it: a woolly caterpillar.
4.
Botany. covered with a pubescence of long, soft hairs resembling wool.
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EXPANDlike the rough, vigorous atmosphere of the early West in America: wild and woolly.
6.
COLLAPSEfuzzy; unclear; disorganized: woolly thinking.
noun
7.
Western U.S. a wool-bearing animal; sheep.
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Usually, woollies. a knitted undergarment of wool or other fiber.
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any woolen garment, as a sweater.
10.
Dialect. a dust ball.
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Woolly
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| phase in plant life which begins with a spore produced by meiosis |
| group of mostly aquatic eukaryotic organisms which conduct photosynthesis and make their own food |
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| woolly or wooly (ˈwʊlɪ) | |
| —adj , sometimes (US) woollier, woolliest, woolier, wooliest | |
| 1. | consisting of, resembling, or having the nature of wool |
| 2. | covered or clothed in wool or something resembling it |
| 3. | lacking clarity or substance: woolly thinking |
| 4. | botany covered with long soft whitish hairs: woolly stems |
| 5. | (US) recalling the rough and lawless period of the early West of America (esp in the phrase wild and woolly) |
| —n , woollier, woolliest, woolier, wooliest, woollies, woolies | |
| 6. | (often plural) a garment, such as a sweater, made of wool or something similar |
| 7. | (Western US), (Austral) (usually plural) an informal word for sheep |
| wooly or wooly | |
| —adj | |
| —n | |
| 'woollily or wooly | |
| —adv | |
| 'woolliness or wooly | |
| —n | |
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