canescent, hoary
(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down
hoary, rusty
(adjective) ancient; “hoary jokes”
grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; “whose beard with age is hoar”-Coleridge; “nodded his hoary head”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hoarier
comparative form of hoary
Source: Wiktionary
Hoar"y, a.
1. White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.)
Definition: Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
