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• s  showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

• Ceylon, which is famed for such exotic birds as the grey-headed babbler, red-faced malkoha and Legge's flowerpecker, also boasts two even rarer aves: the world's only female .
• Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "It isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed.
• Tycoons listen to him respectfully, and grey-headed clerics sit at his feet.

• grey
• gray
• grey-haired
• gray-haired
• gray-headed
• grizzly
• hoar
• hoary
• white-haired