Sooty

  • 121sooty — See: soot …

    English dictionary

  • 122sooty — soot•y [[t]ˈsʊt i, ˈsu ti[/t]] adj. soot•i•er, soot•i•est 1) covered or blackened with soot 2) consisting of or resembling soot 3) of a black or dusky color • Etymology: 1200–50 soot′i•ly, adv. soot′i•ness, n …

    From formal English to slang

  • 123sooty — /ˈsʊti/ (say sootee) adjective (sootier, sootiest) 1. covered, blackened, or smirched with soot. 2. consisting of or resembling soot. 3. of a black, blackish, or dusky colour. –sootily, adverb –sootiness, noun …

  • 124sooty —   Pa u, hāpa upa u …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 125sooty mold — noun Date: 1901 a dark growth of fungus mycelium growing in insect honeydew on plants; also any of various ascomycetous fungi (order Dothideales) producing such growth …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 126sooty tern — noun Date: 1785 a widely distributed tern (Sterna fuscata) of tropical oceans that is blackish above and white below called also wideawake …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 127sooty blotch — Plant Pathol. 1. a disease, esp. of apples and pears, characterized by sootlike spots or blotches on the fruit, caused by a fungus, Gloeodes pomigena. 2. a disease of clover, characterized by black, crusty blotches on the underside of the leaves …

    Universalium

  • 128sooty grouse. — See blue grouse. [1880 85] * * * …

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