Thesaurus / woolly
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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.
WE SEQUENCED THE OLDEST EVER DNA FROM MILLION-YEAR-OLD MAMMOTHSDAVID DÍEZ-DEL-MOLINOFEBRUARY 21, 2021SINGULARITY HUB 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.
THE SPARKS BROTHERS, A SUNDANCE DELIGHT, TELLS THE GRAND STORY OF THIS ENDURINGLY ENIGMATIC ART-POP DUOSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKFEBRUARY 3, 2021TIMEThese 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.
CLIMATE CHANGE PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE WOOLLY RHINO’S RAPID DEMISESARA KILEY WATSONAUGUST 25, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCENuclear 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.
CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT HUNTERS, MAY HAVE KILLED OFF WOOLLY RHINOSBRUCE BOWERAUGUST 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWSHunters could have added to woolly rhinos’ woes, but the main extinction distinction goes to climate change, Lord contends.
CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT HUNTERS, MAY HAVE KILLED OFF WOOLLY RHINOSBRUCE BOWERAUGUST 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWSI 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.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGWhat do you suppose Sunbridge will say to your new expressions à la the wild and woolly West?
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTERThe woolly stems of the millet, likewise, defied their insatiable appetites.
A FORTUNE HUNTER; OR, THE OLD STONE CORRALJOHN DUNLOE CARTERETThey are just as much a manufactured article as the little woolly "baa-baas" in the baby's Noah's Ark.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHURCautiously then she reached out and touched the soft, woolly cuff of his blanket-wrapper.
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTTWORDS RELATED TO WOOLLY
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
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