woolly

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool.
• adjective Resembling wool.
• adjective Lacking sharp detail or clarity.
• adjective Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear.
• adjective Rough, disorderly, or unrestrained.
• noun A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.
• noun Australian A sheep.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Con sisting of wool; fleecy: as, the woolly coat of the sheep, of a young seal, etc.
• Resembling wool; exhibiting woolliness; having the appearance of wool: as, woolly hair; woolly clouds.
• Clothed or covered with wool, or something like it; pubescent; flocculent.
• In hot., covered with a pubescence of long and soft hairs like wool; lanate; tomentose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Consisting of wool.
• adjective Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
• adjective Clothed with wool.
• adjective (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth (Spilosoma Virginica).
• adjective (Bot.) an Australian tree (Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark.
• adjective (Zoöl.) a plant louse (Schizoneura lanigera syn Erisoma lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the mongoose lemur.
• adjective (Zoöl.) a long-tailed lemur (Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; -- called also avahi, and woolly lemur.
• adjective (Zoöl.) any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro.
• adjective (Paleon.) an extinct rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Made of wool.
• adjective Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
• adjective figuratively Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
• adjective having a fluffy character or appearance
• adjective covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
• adjective confused and vague; used especially of thinking