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Hairiness   /hˈɛrinəs/   Listen
Hairiness

noun
1.
The quality of having hair.  Synonym: pilosity.






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"Hairiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... two to six feet on the dry ground of open woods and copses east of the Mississippi, the PROSTRATE TICK-TREFOIL (M. Michauxii; D. rotundifoliurn of Gray) can certainly be named by its soft hairiness, the almost perfect roundness of its trefoliate leaves, its rather loose racemes of deep purple flowers that spring both from the leaf axils and from the ends of the sometimes branching stem; and by its three to five jointed pod, which is deeply scalloped on its lower edge and somewhat ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... Lapinlahti we were surprised by many things: the smallness of the sheep, generally black, and very like those of Astrakhan; the hairiness of the pigs, often piebald; the politeness of the natives, all of whom curtsied or took off their hats; the delicious smell the sun was drawing out of the pine trees, and, perhaps more wonderful ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie



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



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