Meaning of HIRSUTE
| Pronunciation: | | 'hursoot
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| | Definition: | | [adj] having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" |
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| | Synonyms: | | canescent, comal, comate, comose, downy, floccose, furlike, furred, furry, fuzzed, fuzzy, hairy, hispid, hoary, lanate, long-haired, pappose, pilary, pilose, pilous, puberulent, pubescent, sericeous, shock-headed, short-haired, tomentose, tomentous, wire-haired, woolly, wooly |
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| | Antonyms: | | hairless | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hir*sute"\, a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus
horrid. Cf. {Horrid}.]
1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
2. Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.]
Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. --Life of A.
Wood.
3. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. --Gray.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of
certain birds.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Occasionally used as a humorous synonym for hairy. [Jargon File] |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Bearing coarse, rough, longish hairs. Compare villous. |
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| | Related Terms: | | barbellate, bristled, bristling, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hispid, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, unshorn, velvety, whiskered, woolly |
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