bearded
/ˈbɪədɪd
/adjective
1Having a growth of hair on one’s cheeks and chin: beside me sat a pair of bearded men [in combination]: a grey-bearded man...
- The bearded artist, wearing sunglasses, faces the viewer.
- They're thinking of the long-haired and bearded flower children whose Sgt Peppers album ushered in the Summer of Love in 1967.
- The bearded, gravel-voiced Zimmer even stars in his own ads, because he believes his everyman persona calms shoppers.
Synonyms
unshaven, whiskered, whiskery, bewhiskered;
stubbly, bristly, hairy, hirsute, bushy, shaggy
British informal, dated beavered
1.1(Of an animal) having a tuft of hair on its chin: a bearded seal...
- Among the thousands of observations submitted to the Norfolk Bird Report, none are more welcome than details of the local bearded tit population.
- His colleagues have been debating whether the carcass belongs to a bearded seal, a walrus or a beluga whale.
- The second, smaller box contained an adult bearded dragon, normally a native of Australia.
1.2(Of a plant) having a tuft of hair or bristles: bearded irises...
- Now is the best time to set out rhizomes of bearded irises.
- My forte is a beautiful, tall bearded iris of heavy substance.
- Bearded irises grow from rhizomes by generating an "increase," which produces the next bloom stalk.