Pioneering American transplant surgeon responsible for three epochal operations: the first human lung transplant in 1963, the first animal-to-human heart transplant in 1964, and a double-lung transplant that left the heart in place, in 1987. The 1964 transplant of a chimpanzee heart was done three years before the first human-heart transplant (by C [..]

c. 1200, "bold, daring, fearless," also "presumptuous, audacious," from Old French hardi "bold, brave, courageous; confident, presumptuous," from past participle of hardi [..]

strong or able to withstand severe weather.

able to withstand year-round climatic conditions including frost, without protection

A garden term that means a plant is capable of surviving winter temperature changes without any protection. heading back:

A plant that can withstand freezing temperatures without damage.

describes a plant’s ability to thrive or survive undamaged in specified lowest minimum temperatures; the most cold hardy vegetables are spinach and kale

A plant that can withstand frost exposure without means of protection. Hardiness zone

A plant that has a high tolerance to the weather extremes (frost, drought) and can be planted directly outside.

plant that can survive winter temperatures (note this depends on the extremity of the temperatures)

Plants able to survive the winter without protection. Examples include brussels sprouts and broccoli.

An outdoor plant capable of surviving frost anywhere in Great Britain.

A word referring to a plant's ability to tolerate freezing temperatures. A hardy plant is able to survive the freezing temperatures of the winter months until spring comes.

Frost- or freeze-tolerant. In horticulture, this term does not mean tough or resistant to insect pests or disease.

The plants ability to withstand cold. also referred to as "cold  hardy"

Able to withstand winter temperatures.

Strong plants that are usually able to flourish outside all year round without special protection.

                         Plants able to withstand cold conditions, with no protection.

 A garden term that means a plant is capable of surviving winter temperature changes without any protection.

A plant that should be capable of thriving outside all the year round.

tough; brave

bold, strong hardynesse

This refers to plants which are capable of surviving, indeed thriving, under the natural environment given to them. (See also Half-hardy.)

(n) United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)(n) English novelist and poet (1840-1928)(adj) having rugg [..]

Heroine of the Belle’s Stratagem, by Mrs. Cowley. She is a young lady of fortune destined to marry Doricourt. She first assumes the air of a raw country hoyden and disgusts the fastidious man [..]

(b. Enfield). “Between Two Fires” (1873); “Glencairn” (1876); “Only a Love Story” (1877); “A Broken Faith” (1878); “Fri [..]

(b. Dorsetshire, June 2nd, 1840). “Under the Greenwood Tree” (1872); “A Pair of Blue Eyes” (1873); “Far from the Madding Crowd” (1874); “ [..]

A plant that can survive winter temperatures, but this varies on temperature extremes.

Financial economist; born Island City, Missouri, 2 May 1884, died 30 November 1948. Hardy held posts at the University of Kansas and between 1918 and ...

, adj. frosty. ‘It’s a hardy mornin’.’

Frost- or freeze-tolerant. In horticulture, this term does not mean tough or resistant to insect pests or disease.

transferred from the surname.

Hardy may refer to:

Hardy is an English and a French surname of Old French origin. Hardy comes from Old French hardi > French hardi meaning "bold, courageous" which comes from Old Frankish hardjan meaning "to make har [..]

A Hardy is any one of a category of mountain, hill or high point in the United Kingdom which is the highest point in a hill range; island over 1,000 acres (400 ha); or top-tier administrative area.

Hardy is the given name of: Hardy Amies (1909–2003), English fashion designer Hardy Åström (born 1951), Swedish hockey player Hardy Binguila (born 1996), Congolese footballer Hardy Brown (1924–1991), [..]

From a surname that was derived from Middle English hardi "bold, hardy".

Diminutive of names containing the Old German element hart meaning "hard, firm, brave, hardy".