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Shagginess   Listen
Shagginess

noun
1.
Unkemptness of hair.
2.
Roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs.





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"Shagginess" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the sepals are almost shaggy. The spectral appearance of the flower is considerably heightened by the smooth, white, slipper-like lip, which contrasts so forcibly in color and texture with the lurid shagginess around it. Sir J. D. Hooker, in describing this species in the Botanical Magazine, t. 6, 152, says that the aspect of the curved scape as it bears aloft its buds and hairy flowers is very suggestive of the head and body of a viper about to strike. Dr. Haughton, F.R.S., told me long ago ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various


Words linked to "Shagginess" :   shaggy, raggedness, slovenliness, unkemptness, sloppiness, roughness


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