| Pronunciation: | 'hursoot | ||
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| Matching Terms: | hirsuteness, hirsutism | ||
| Definition: | [adj] having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" | ||
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| Synonyms: | canescent, comal, comate, comose, downy, floccose, furlike, furred, furry, fuzzed, fuzzy, hairy, hispid, hoary, lanate, long-haired, pappose, pilary, pilose, pilous, puberulent, pubescent, sericeous, shock-headed, short-haired, tomentose, tomentous, wire-haired, woolly, wooly | ||
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| Antonyms: | hairless | ||
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| Definition: | \Hir*sute"\, a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus
horrid. Cf. {Horrid}.]
1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
2. Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.]
Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. --Life of A.
Wood.
3. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. --Gray.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of
certain birds.
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| Definition: | Occasionally used as a humorous synonym for hairy. | ||
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| Definition: | Bearing coarse, rough, longish hairs. Compare villous. | ||
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| Related Terms: | barbellate, bristled, bristling, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hispid, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, unshorn, velvety, whiskered, woolly | ||
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