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filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"

dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"

a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"

a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost by a hair"

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"

dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.

Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

A haircloth.

Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

A haircloth.

Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

(human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

A modification of the epidermis found on almost every surface of the body except the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and the glans penis. It is a filament of KERATIN consisting of a shaft, a root, and a point.

One of the small filaments growing out of the skin of any animal; the mass of such threadlike growth; minute fibers on the surface of plants.

1. Pilus, one of the fine, long flexible appendages of the skin, covering the entire body except on the palms and soles and other flexor surfaces. See pilus and scapus. The hairs of the various parts of the body have received special names (see below). 2. One of the fine, hair-like processes of the auditory cells of the labyrinth, of the taste-bulbs, and of other sensory cells, called auditory hairs, gustatory hairs, sensory hairs, etc.

Filiform growth on the skin.

A filament growing from the skin of an animal: the whole mass of hairs which forms a covering for the head or the whole body: (bot.) minute hair-like processes on the cuticle of plants: anything very small and fine.

Filament growing from the skin of an animal; the mass of hair; any fine filament.

A filament growing from the skin of an animal; such filaments collectively; any similar outgrowth.

A small filament, with a bulbous root, growing from the skin of an animal; the mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; anything very small or fine; minute hair-like filaments on the surface of plants.

Fibres or threads of different degrees of fineness which cover the bodies of many animals; anything very small and fine having length; a hair, a single hair; a fine slender thread or filament; the hair, the whole collection or body of threads or filaments growing upon an animal, or upon any distinct part.

A threadlike or filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis of animals; any outgrowth of the epidermis consisting of one or more cells, and very varied in shape.

A conical, corneous substance, the free portion or shaft, scapus, of which issues to a greater or less distance from the skin, to the tissue of which it adheres by a bulb, Bulbus pili, seated in a hair follicle-folliculus pili-made by an inversion of the integument, the epidermis of which forms a "root sheath," vagina pili. At the base of the hair follicle, there is a small papilla, well supplied with blood-vessels and nerves, Papilla pili; at times called, but improperly, Pulpa seu Blastema pili. The hair receives various names in different parts-as Beard, Cilia, Eyebrows, Hair of the head, ( Capilli,) &c

The filamentous outgrowth found mainly upon the scalp.

A corneous outgrowth from the epidermis, consisting of a long, fine, tubular, elastic body, growing from a follicle of the skin and containing a medullary substance the hair pith, filling a narrow, irregular cavity in the center of the hair. Its shaft and a portion of its root are covered by an epidermis consisting of a thin lamella of flattened horny cells, overlapping each other distally.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, German] A small filament growing from a bulbous root in the skin of an animal;—a collection or mass of such serving as a covering to the skin: hair of the head; fur; down; bristles;—a species of pubescence on plants;—any thing small or fine; exact value or distance;—course; grain; direction.

One of the common teguments of the body; a single hair; any thing proverbially small.