hardy Definition

bold, brave

audacious, brazen

accustomed to dealing with fatigue or hardships : robust

Oliver 1892—1957 originally Norvell Hardy American comic actor

Thomas 1840—1928 English novelist and poet

a fundamental principle of population genetics: population gene frequencies and genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation if mating is random and if mutation, selection, immigration, and emigration do not occur

able to withstand a moderately low temperature but injured by severe freezing and surviving the winter in cold climates only if carefully protected