Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany: Awned; especially, having long stout awns, as bearded wheat.
  • Having a special growth of hairs on certain organs, as on the inside of the corolla in many flowers, for example, those of Pentstemon.
  • Having a beard.
  • In heraldry: Same as barbed, 3. Having a train like that of a comet or meteor (which see).
  • In entom.: Having a tuft of hairs on the clypeus, overhanging the mouth. Covered on one side with short and thickly set hairs: said of antennæ.

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

  • adjective Having a beard.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) See Matamata.

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

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of beard.
  • adjective having a beard

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

  • adjective having a growth of hairlike awns
  • adjective having hair on the cheeks and chin

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  • BeARdEd

    May 9, 2008