Definition of downy

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

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Flossy :: Flossy (a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy..
Cottony :: Cottony (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly..
Mollipilose :: Mollipilose (a.) Having soft hairs; downy.
Fur :: Fur (n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach..
Lanuginous :: Lanuginous (a.) Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy..
Fluffy :: Fluffy (superl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy..
Pubes :: Pubes (n.) The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.
Pappose :: Pappose (a.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.
Plumulaceous :: Plumulaceous (a.) Downy; bearing down.
Downy :: Downy (a.) Cunning; wary.
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..
Lint :: Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..
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..
Cotton :: Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half..
Puberulent :: Puberulent (a.) Very minutely downy.
Fluey :: Fluey (a.) Downy; fluffy.
Downiness :: Downiness (n.) The quality or state of being downy.
Pullus :: Pullus (n.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
Coronule :: Coronule (n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.
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