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

  • adjective Relating to or containing hair.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered with hair; hairy; pilose.
  • Consisting of hair; hair-like; piliform: as. a pilous covering. Also pileous.

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

  • adjective See pilose.

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

  • adjective Covered with fine hair; pilose.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective covered with hairs especially fine soft ones

Etymologies

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

[From Latin pilōsus; see pilose.]

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