Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered with hair or fur; pilous or pilose; piliferous.

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

  • adjective Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.

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

  • adjective Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.

Etymologies

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Latin pilus hair + -gerous: compare French piligère.

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Examples

  • When you take your seat in the butcher's shambles he provides you with a copy of Puck because its jokes are so excruciatingly painful that it pulls your piligerous annex out with a stump-extractor and rubbed aqua fortis into your face with a bath brick, the physical ill would be forgotten in the mental agony.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

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