bearded

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having a growth of hairlike awns

   bearded wheatgrass

2. 2
   adj

   Having a beard; involving a beard.

   (botany)

3. 3
   adj

   Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).

   bearded mussel

4. 4
   adj

   Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.

   [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’

5. 5
   noun

   Ellipsis of bearded iris.

   The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer.

6. 6
   adj

   having hair on the cheeks and chin

7. 7
   adj

   Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.

8. 8
   adj

   Having barbs of a certain color.

Etymology

From Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English; by surface analysis, beard + -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).