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wire-haired

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wire-haired
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of an animal) having a rough wiry coat
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Adj.1.wire-haired - (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair; "a wire-haired terrier"
haired, hairy, hirsute - having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
Translations
wire-haired [ˈwaɪəhɛəd] ADJ [dog] → de pelo áspero


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It was my own Snap--the little dark, wire-haired terrier
He felt his way in the darkness to the door of the outhouse, unlatched it, and entered softly, feeling with his hands for the wire-haired coat.
Elliot had embarked upon of a wire-haired terrier, white with just one black spot, belonging to an uncle of hers, which had committed suicide.
 
 
 
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