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- adjective Attributive form of
woolly bear , noun.
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Examples
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Scraps of squirrel, one garter snake probably caught trying to warm up on the pavement, a hundred or so woolly-bear caterpillars.
Blue sky jhetley 2008
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However, the woolly-bear caterpillars have begun their annual pilgrimage of death, coating the roads with several hundred corpses per mile in suitable habitat areas.
Wednesday no-roadkill report jhetley 2006
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How impossible it all seems, -- how heartbreaking; yet everything shakes down eventually, and the great dark caterpillar, bristling with armed men like a woolly-bear, creeps forward into the veiled uncertainty of night.
On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913
she commented on the word woolly-bear
Right, yes— Unbearably cute name for the hairy caterpillar. Also woolly-worm.
August 10, 2008