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hair
has definitions from the fields of zoology,clothing,botany
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[ noun ] dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss
Examples "he combed his hair" |
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
Synonyms Examples "there is a hair in my soup" Used in print (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead , standing so high that the top falls gently over , as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle . Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead , standing so high that the top falls gently over , as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Thus shielded , we played many foolish games in comfortable unselfconsciousness ; even when the fences became a part of the game - when a vine embowered gate-post was the Sleeping_Beauty 's enchanted castle , or when Rapunzel let_down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire , even then we paid little heed to those who went_by on the path outside . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)Besides , Miss_Henrietta - as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back - had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; so Cyrus_Adler became interested in her friend Racie_Friedenwald , and Joe_Jastrow - the only young_man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta , and signed himself Joe - fell_in_love with pretty sister Rachel . (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)Prettier , she 'd do her hair another way ; smarter , and wear different kinds of clothes - she 'd be Katharine_Ross , just what that sounded like . |
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[ noun ] (botany,zoology) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
Examples "peach fuzz" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a very small distance or space
Synonyms Examples "they escaped by a hair's-breadth" "they lost the election by a whisker" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 4603
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