Definition of downy

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Downy (a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs..

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Downy :: Downy (a.) Cunning; wary.
Fur :: Fur (n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach..
Cherimoyer :: Cherimoyer (n.) A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru..
Tail :: Tail (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
Downy :: Downy (a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs..
Woundwort :: Woundwort (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys..
Lanuginous :: Lanuginous (a.) Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy..
Downiness :: Downiness (n.) The quality or state of being downy.
Plume :: Plume (v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather..
Blight :: Blight (n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects..
Fluey :: Fluey (a.) Downy; fluffy.
Pullus :: Pullus (n.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
Fluff :: Fluff (n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers..
Web :: Web (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather..
Puberulent :: Puberulent (a.) Very minutely downy.
Puff-leg :: Puff-leg (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
Tomentum :: Tomentum (n.) The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.
Blowball :: Blowball (n.) The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away..
Plumulaceous :: Plumulaceous (a.) Downy; bearing down.
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