hoary adj

1 showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: gray, grey, gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, white-haired]

2 ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: rusty]

3 covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent] [also: hoariest, hoarier]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːri

Adjective

1. white or gray with age

   the old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence

2. of a pale silvery gray.
3. covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent
4. remote in time past
5. moldy; mossy; musty

Related terms

• hoar

Derived terms

• hoarily
• hoariness

Hoary may refer to:

• hoary, white or grey with age
• Hoary bat, a "hairy-tailed bat" (genus Lasiurus) in the family of vesper bats (Vespertilionidae)
• Hoary catshark, a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic from the Leeward Islands off Antigua and Anguilla
• Hoary Comma, a species of butterfly, common in boreal North America
• Hoary Fox (or Hoary zorro), a species of zorro (false fox) endemic to Brazil
• Hoary-headed Grebe, a member of the grebe family found in Australia and, since 1975, New Zealand, where it is scarce
• Hoary Marmot, a species of marmot that inhabits the mountains of northwest North America
• Hoary Hedgehog, the codename for Ubuntu 5.04.

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