Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.
  • 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.

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