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blue-bearded

blue-bearded adjective: having thick, dark facial hair.

Adjective

blue-bearded (not comparable)

  1. Having thick, dark facial hair.
    • Blue-bearded though they were, and bereft of the youthful smoothness of cheek which is imparted by what is termed in Albion a ‘Whitechapel shave’ (and which is, in fact, whitening, judiciously applied to the jaws with the palm of the hand), I recognised them.1875, Charles Dickens, "In the French-Flemish Country" in The Uncommercial Traveller, The Works of Charles Dickens, National Edition, Volume XXX, London: Chapman & Hall, 1907, p. 354...
    • Grouped in the center of the hall were about two hundred men, all armed with sabers, — men of every age, and height and swarthiness, from stout, blue-bearded veterans to youths yet in their teens […]1921, Talbot Mundy, chapter 16, in Guns of the Gods
  2. (As part of the names of plants and animals) Characterized by a tuft or other part of a bluish colour, resembling a beard.

Words formed from blue-bearded

  • blue-bearded bee-eater
  • blue-bearded iris
  • blue-bearded spelt

Questions about blue-bearded

What does blue-bearded mean?
Blue-bearded means having thick, dark facial hair.
What part of speech is blue-bearded?
Blue-bearded is an adjective.

Words near blue-bearded in the dictionary

  1. blue-balls
  2. blue-banded eggflies
  3. blue-banded eggfly
  4. blue-banded sea krait
  5. blue-banded sea kraits
  6. blue-bearded
  7. blue-beat
  8. blue-bellied black snake
  9. blue-bellied black snakes
  10. blue-billed duck
  11. blue-billed ducks

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