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Hairy
(redirected from hairy caterpillars)

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hair·y (hâr)
adj.
1. Covered with hair or hairlike projections.
2. Consisting of or resembling hair.
Hairy
Drug slang noun A regionally popular street term for heroin
Vox populi adjective Hirsute; replete with hair, pellose
hairy
characterized by a covering of hairs.
hairy angels' trumpet
daturametel.
hairy caltrop
kallstroemiahirsutissima.
hairy caterpillars
elongated mucosal erosions occur in mouths of horses grazing pasture infested with hairy caterpillars. See also erosive stomatitis.
hairy cell leukemia
a condition of humans, of which a counterpart is seen in cats. Previous name was reticuloendotheliosis.
hairy gousiektebossie
pachystigmapygmaeum.
hairy millet
see panicumeffusum.
hairy panic grass
see panicumeffusum.
hairy shakers
see border disease.
hairy thornapple
daturametel.
hairy vetch
see viciavillosa.
hairy
adjective Vox populi Hirsute; replete with hair, pellose
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Byline: EUAN STRETCH SUPER hairy caterpillars which cause breathing trouble and nasty rashes are on the march.
THE INVASION OF THE HAIRY CATERPILLARS; Move sparks allergy alert by The Mirror (London, England)
The hairy caterpillars of this species, popularly called 'Woolly Bears', used to be a common feature 30 or 40 years ago, but it is thought that milder, wetter winters do not favour this species.
The moths of Tees Valley's industrial sites; Robert Woods reports on ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
There's nowhere to put a grand piano, even if I could afford one, because my spare room is a midden of bits of wood, empty CD cases, dolls made out of wooden spoons (a present from Romania, don't ask), old trainers, Elvis Viewmasters, undeveloped film, crockery and small strips of sticky-backed Velcro, which seem to be breeding like an army of hairy caterpillars, even though I've no idea what they're for.
Lucy Sweet : I can't help obsessing over people's houses by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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