hairy : Idioms & Phrases


hairy darling pea

  • noun shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to pink flowers
    Swainsona grandiflora; Swainsona greyana.
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hairy finger grass

  • noun a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States
    large crabgrass; Digitaria sanguinalis.
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hairy golden aster

  • noun 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
    Chrysopsis villosa; prairie golden aster; Heterotheca villosa.
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hairy honeysuckle

  • noun twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America
    Lonicera hirsuta.
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hairy lip fern

  • noun small North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely wooly
    wooly lip fern; Cheilanthes lanosa.
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hairy root

  • noun a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots
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hairy spurge

  • noun much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America
    Euphorbia hirsuta.
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hairy tare

  • noun European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
    hairy tare; Vicia villosa.
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hairy tongue

  • noun a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue
    black tongue; furry tongue.
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hairy vetch

  • noun European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
    hairy tare; Vicia villosa.
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hairy willowherb

  • noun plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America
    codlins-and-cream; Epilobium hirsutum.
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hairy wood mint

  • noun a variety of wood mint
    Blephilia hirsuta.
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hairy-legged vampire bat

  • noun similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas
    Diphylla ecaudata.
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