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| ant bear |
a large, toothless, ant-eating mammal with a long snout, a sticky, extendable tongue, and a long shaggy tail; great anteater. [1/2 definitions] |
| aye-aye |
a nocturnal lemur found in Madagascar that has shaggy dark brown fur, a long bushy tail, large ears, long clawlike fingers, and strong rodentlike teeth. |
| bison |
a hoofed, shaggy, cud-chewing mammal with a large head and forequarters, short curved horns, and a hump at the shoulders, found in North America; buffalo. [1/2 definitions] |
| bushy |
resembling a bush; thick and shaggy. [1/2 definitions] |
| clean-cut |
not shaggy or shabby; neat; wholesome. [1/2 definitions] |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| Irish wolfhound |
a tall, slim, strong dog with a rough shaggy coat in shades ranging from white to mixtures of dark gray, and a head shaped like a terrier's. |
| puli1 |
a medium-sized sheep dog, bred originally in Hungary, having long hair that mats in shaggy coils. |
| raggedy |
ragged; torn; shaggy. |
| ragtag |
shaggy, unkempt, or decrepit; in poor condition; ramshackle. |
| Rocky Mountain goat |
a goatlike antelope, found esp. in the mountains of northwestern North America, that has short, black, backward-curving horns and a shaggy white coat. |
| shagbark hickory |
a North American hickory tree that has rough shaggy bark and bears small hard-shelled edible nuts. |
| wolverine |
a carnivorous North American mammal related to the weasel, with dark, shaggy fur, white markings on the face and body, and a bushy tail. |
| woodchuck |
any of various marmots, esp. one commonly found in northeastern North America that has a stocky body and shaggy gray-brown fur, lives in a burrow, and hibernates in winter; groundhog. |
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