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woolly

adjective as in resembling wool

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adjective as in made of or covered in wool

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adjective as in confused

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Cultivated meat may be "safe-ly" marketed as nuggets and burgers, but, in principle, the options are endless: Curious consumers could sample lab-grown whale or turtle meat guilt-free, or even find out what woolly mammoth tasted like.

From Salon

Denis Carbonaro has been making sculptures in the front and back garden of his Fife semi for nine-and-a-half years, including a woolly mammoth, a Spanish galleon up a tree, a spider and a shrine during Covid.

From BBC

There are a few other fruit trees on the property, but mostly it’s a riot of native plants with enough variety that even in the summer, when many California native plants go dormant, the garden is full of fragrance and color — bright purple wands of woolly blue curls that smell as sweet as bubble gum; sticky yellow and red monkeyflowers, tall mallows with large flowers in orange and lavender, pinkish white bouquets on the narrow milkweed and sunflowers and fuchsias nearly ready to bloom.

The proposed definition of grey belt is far too woolly at the moment – and Nicholas is right, it could make lots of lawyers and landowners rich.

From BBC

Steppe mammoths were an ancestor of the woolly mammoth, and this site is believed to date back to around 220,000 years ago.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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