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woolly

adjective as in resembling wool

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adjective as in made of or covered in wool

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adjective as in confused

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Most people think of mammoths as the iconic woolly species from the last ice age, which ended around 12,000 years ago.

Wright—the director behind Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver—has loved Sparks for a long time, and he’s the ideal guide through their woolly story.

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These creatures, much like the woolly mammoth, faced an even more confusing set of unlucky situations that included a rapid warming of the globe which ultimately ended the ice age.

Nuclear DNA from woolly rhinos that lived between around 18,000 and 14,000 years ago will be needed to determine when in that brief window of time the population of these animals plummeted.

Hunters could have added to woolly rhinos’ woes, but the main extinction distinction goes to climate change, Lord contends.

An army of Wildlings, some giants, and a woolly mammoth or two?

Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

And every second belief in the world is a woolly superstition.

In a typical post, she wears a crazy-looking pinafore with an outrageous collar, round-frame shades, and thick, woolly knee socks.

Did she learn from the New York 23rd District election that being a moderate Republican is a lot like being a woolly mammoth?

I have drawn him gray and woolly, and you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers in his hair.

What do you suppose Sunbridge will say to your new expressions à la the wild and woolly West?

The woolly stems of the millet, likewise, defied their insatiable appetites.

They are just as much a manufactured article as the little woolly "baa-baas" in the baby's Noah's Ark.

Cautiously then she reached out and touched the soft, woolly cuff of his blanket-wrapper.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to woolly, such as: flocculent, bushy, downy, hairy, hirsute, and fluffy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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