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Hairiness   Listen
noun
Hairiness  n.  
1.
The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.
2.
The quality of being hairy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hairiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Internal Improvements. During that evening Alexander Ferguson declared that he would not cut his hair until Henry Clay became president, the news of which resolution led to a like insanity in others and an age of unexampled hairiness on ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller

... chitinous skin, the ownership of an internal bony skeleton and a large skull, and a complicated development of brain, are the diagnostic signs. Thyroid internal secretion has a very definite controlling relation to all of them: to skin, its hairiness, moisture and amount of mucus, to the growth and size of the bones, especially the bones of the extremities and the skull, and to intelligence and the complexity of the convolutions of the brain. Injury to the thyroid, ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... Extreme hairiness of body, on the other hand, which might well be taken as a simian or vestigial character, is seldom met with in the Bantu, but is equally common among Europeans and Australian aboriginals and is found particularly ...
— The Black Man's Place in South Africa • Peter Nielsen



Words linked to "Hairiness" :   visual aspect, hirsuteness, hairlessness, appearance



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