hairy : Idioms & Phrases
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hairy darling pea
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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
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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
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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
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noun twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America
Lonicera hirsuta.
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hairy lip fern
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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
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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
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noun much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America
Euphorbia hirsuta.
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hairy tare
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noun European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
hairy tare; Vicia villosa.
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hairy tongue
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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
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noun European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
hairy tare; Vicia villosa.
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hairy willowherb
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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
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noun a variety of wood mint
Blephilia hirsuta.
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hairy-legged vampire bat
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noun similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas
Diphylla ecaudata.