Of a plant part: having a prickle, bristle, hair, or hair-like appendage, or a tuft or set of these; spec. (of the grain of a cereal) awned. Also…

Covered with down.

Of a plant: Clothed with down.

Of a plant: Downy; = cottoned, adj. 2.

Of a plant: covered with long hairs, or with a growth that resembles a mane. rare.

Of parts of plants: Covered with a pubescence resembling wool; downy, lanate, tomentose.

Botany. Covered with short weak thin pubescence.

General attributive: as bristle brush; bristle-armed, bristle-backed, bristle-bearing, bristle-leaved, bristle-like, bristle-pointed adj., bristle-s…

Hairy, downy; having a bunch of hair.

= fimbriate, adj.

Closely covered with down or short fine hairs; pubescent, downy. Also: †having a flocculent, downy, or felted appearance (obsolete). Cf. tomentose…

transferred. Of plants, etc.: Having a rough or shaggy appearance.

Chiefly Botany and Entomology. Closely covered with down or short fine hairs; pubescent, downy. Also as second element in compounds.

Hairy; having hair or hair-like appendages. Also (of a leaf, cell, etc.): with a jagged edge, serrate, notched.

= villous, adj.

Rough with stiff hair or bristles; shaggy; bristly: in Botany and Invert. Zool. Clothed with short stiff hairs or bristles; rough with minute spines.

Botany. Of leaves, stems, etc.: having pubescence; covered with short soft hair.

Botany. Having setæ or bristles.

Botany. Of parts of plants: Thickly covered with long soft hairs.

Furnished with lashes. Chiefly with qualifying word prefixed, as black-lashed, dark-lashed, long-lashed.

Botany. Covered with fine, soft, close-set hairs having a silk-like gloss; sericeous.

= strigose, adj.2 1 (in quot. 1877 transferred).

Silky; covered with silky down.

Bearded, bristly.

Furnished with an awn; bearded.

Botany. Covered with strigæ or stiff hairs. Also of hairs: Having the character of strigæ.

Botany and Zoology. Having or covered with rough or stiff hairs (hirsute) or long soft hairs (villous). Also in renderings of specific names, as s…

Of a part of an animal or plant, esp. a seaweed: covered with hairs or filaments.

Of a plant: Bearing thread-like fibres or parts; filamentous, hairy. rare.

Having a feathery top. rare.

= setose, adj.

Furnished with aristæ; awned, bearded.

Of a plant: Bearing filaments or thread-like parts.

Botany and Zoology. Fringed; bordered with hairs or filiform processes.

Of a leaf, stem, etc.: slightly downy with very short hairs; minutely pubescent.

= puberulent, adj.

Botany and Zoology. = sericeous, adj.

Bearded; in Botany and Zoology furnished with a small hairy tuft or tufts.

Finely strigose.

Bearing small fringes.

Fringed with minute cilia.

Bearing a fimbrilla.

= strigillose, adj.