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Pilose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Covered with fine soft hair.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Covered with fine hair.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.

adj. Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.

adj. Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Covered with hair; hairy; furry; pilous; especially, covered with fine or soft hair.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. covered with hairs especially fine soft ones

Word Usage

"The _inflorescence_ consists of usually two closely appressed spikes, though appearing as one, 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, pilose with ferrugineous hairs; the peduncle is capillary and enclosed by the upper leaf-sheath."

Equivalent

hairy haired hirsute

Form

pilosity

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hairy hair