downy : Idioms & Phrases


downy ash

  • noun smallish American tree with velvety branchlets and lower leaf surfaces
    Fraxinus pennsylvanica; red ash.
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downy birch

  • noun European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
    Betula pubescens; white birch.
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downy brome

  • noun annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean
    Bromus tectorum; drooping brome; downy brome; downy cheat; cheatgrass; downy bromegrass.
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downy bromegrass

  • noun annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean
    Bromus tectorum; drooping brome; downy brome; downy cheat; cheatgrass; downy bromegrass.
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downy cheat

  • noun annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean
    Bromus tectorum; drooping brome; downy brome; downy cheat; cheatgrass; downy bromegrass.
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downy chess

  • noun annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean
    Bromus tectorum; drooping brome; downy brome; downy cheat; cheatgrass; downy bromegrass.
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downy ground cherry

  • noun decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
    Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato.
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downy haw

  • noun American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs
    red haw; Crataegus mollis; Crataegus coccinea mollis.
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downy manzanita

  • noun erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young
    woolly manzanita; Arctostaphylos tomentosa.
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downy mildew

  • noun any of various fungi of the family Peronosporaceae parasitic on e.g. grapes and potatoes and melons
    false mildew.
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downy poplar

  • noun North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
    black cottonwood; Populus heterophylla; swamp cottonwood; swamp poplar.
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downy wood mint

  • noun a variety of wood mint
    Blephilia celiata.
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downy woodpecker

  • noun small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill
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downy yellow violet

  • noun violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins
    Viola pubescens.
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