[
US
/ˈhɛɹi/
]
[ UK /hˈeəɹi/ ]
[ UK /hˈeəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having or covered with hair
a hairy caterpillar
Jacob was a hairy man -
hazardous and frightening
hairy moments in the mountains
How To Use hairy In A Sentence
- An odd hairy quadruped is upsetting residents of Scott Town, Jamaica, again. Archive 2008-06-01
- The tropane alkaloids scopolamine and hyoscyamine were extracted and analysed from N. tabacum cultured hairy roots.
- The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
- (His hairy chest was open to what poets call the 'wined', In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
- She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
- The labellum indument resembles, although superficially, that of the hairy areas of an insect tegument.
- During the first year he has no horns, but a horny excrescence, which is short and rough, and covered with a thin hairy skin. The Book of Household Management
- Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
- Bumper to bumper we proceeded, the road narrowed and things became hairy.
- Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?