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Definition of Shreddy
1. a. Consisting of shreds.
Definition of Shreddy
1. Adjective. Consisting of shreds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shreddy
1. cut up [adj SHREDDIER, SHREDDIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreddy
Literary usage of Shreddy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"The latter may show a dirty grayish-white, shreddy appearance, and its thickened
substance may contain small collections of dirty-gray ..."
2. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Scales 2-3 mm. long, not becoming shreddy : fruit scabrous. ... A shrub 6-10 dm.
high, with diffusely spreading branches; bark becoming white and shreddy or ..."
3. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"... 'ok'moa, bark). e (Hano Tewa, qwi), 'shreddy bark' (qwi, fiber; te ?). ...
This is very shreddy and is a favorite substance for kindling fires. ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"The older bark usually becomes white and shreddy. ... less persistent and not
becoming shreddy ; staminate perianth round- ovate ; fertile aments with fewer ..."
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