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hairiness

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hair·y  (hâr)
adj. hair·i·er, hair·i·est
1. Covered with hair or hairlike projections: a hairy caterpillar.
2. Consisting of or resembling hair: a hairy overcoat.
3. Slang Fraught with difficulties; hazardous: a hairy escape; hairy problems.
hairi·ness n.
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Noun1.hairiness - the quality of having hair
pilosity
appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
hirsuteness, hirsutism - excessive hairiness
hairlessness - the quality of not having hair
Translations
hairiness
n → Behaartheit f; is hairiness a sign of virility? → ist starker Haarwuchs ein Zeichen von Männlichkeit?


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The fore-feet of the YAHOO differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.
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All that had caused him doubt before as to the identity of his attackers was the hairiness of their breasts, for the white apes are entirely hairless except for a great shock bristling from their heads.
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