Hair (Noun)
Meaning 1
Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz".
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The young peach had a fine hair that was easily visible to the naked eye.
- Cottonseed hair is often used as a textile material in the production of clothing.
- Peach fuzz is the fine hair that grows on the surface of a peach fruit.
- Tomatoes also produce trichomes, a type of hair that grows on the leaves and stems.
- Grapevine leaves are often covered with fine hairs that reflect sunlight and conserve water.
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Meaning 2
A very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker".
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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
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Meaning 3
Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 4
A filamentous projection or process on an organism.
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Nouns denoting animals.
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Meaning 5
Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup".
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Nouns denoting body parts.
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Meaning 6
A covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells".
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Hyponyms
- Supercilium
- Hair Style
- Crotch Hair
- Cilium
- Pile
- Head Of Hair
- Brow
- Bush
- Ringlet
- Coiffure
- Curl
- Hairstyle
- Coif
- Lash
- Foretop
- Whorl
- Pelage