Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the form of a hair.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Slender or fine as a hair; filiform; filamentous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Resembling hairs or down.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling hair

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin pilus, hair + –form.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin pilus ("hair") +‎ -form

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