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• Downy Emerald — Cordulia aenea, male Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …   Wikipedia

• Downy — Down y ( [y^]), a. 1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. A downy feather. Shak. [1913 Webster] Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• downy — [[t]da͟ʊni[/t]] downier, downiest 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Something that is downy is filled or covered with small soft feathers. ...the warm downy quilt. ...the white downy bodies of two chicks. 2) ADJ GRADED Something that is downy is covered… …   English dictionary

• downy — UK [ˈdaʊnɪ] / US adjective Word forms downy : adjective downy comparative downier superlative downiest covered in very soft small hairs or feathers …   English dictionary

• downy haw — noun American red fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs • Syn: ↑red haw, ↑Crataegus mollis, ↑Crataegus coccinea mollis • Hypernyms: ↑hawthorn, ↑haw • Member Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• downy — down|y [ dauni ] adjective covered in very soft small hairs or feathers …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• downy — [ˈdaʊni] adj covered in very soft small hairs or feathers …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• downy Japanese maple — noun a small tree, a variety of Japanese maple, Acer japonicum, the new leaves of which are covered with white hairs …  

• hair — hairlike, adj. /hair/, n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus. 2. an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most… …   Universalium

• human embryology — ▪ biology Introduction       the process encompassing the period from the formation of an embryo, through the development of a fetus, to birth.       The human body, like that of most animals, develops from a single cell produced by the union of… …   Universalium

• Loch Lomond Vernal Pool Ecological Reserve — The Loch Lomond Vernal Pool Ecological Reserve is in Lake County, California. It is one of 119 ecological reserves [The ecological reserve system was authorized by the state legislature in 1968. The mission of the reserve system is the… …   Wikipedia