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gray-headed

or grey-head·ed

[ grey-hed-id ]

adjective

  1. having gray hair.
  2. of or relating to old age or old people.
  3. old.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gray-headed1

First recorded in 1525–35
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Example Sentences

Every night, gray-headed flying fox bats fill the skies above Melbourne, Australia.

Every evening, tens of thousands of gray-headed flying foxes fan across the sky above Melbourne, Australia.

They might relate more to those scientists than an old gray-headed lady like me.

Stepanian is also now using radar to study the migration patterns of Australian bats, specifically gray-headed flying foxes—one of the largest types of bat in the world, with wingspans that can reach three feet.

It was the regulars like Queeg, “standing guard on this fat, dumb and happy country of ours”, who saved Greenwald’s mother, a “little gray-headed Jewish lady”, from being melted down into a bar of soap.

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