Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing or producing hair.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing or tipped with hairs.
- In zoology, bearing hairs; hairy; piligerous: specifically, in entomology, noting the tubercles of caterpillars whence bundles of hairs arise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
- adjective Beset with hairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing or producing
hair .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The root-hairs are mere protrusions of the cells of the outermost layer of the cortex of the root and this layer is called the = piliferous layer =.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Exodermis the layer or layers of thickened cells beneath the piliferous layer of roots, 32.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Just below the piliferous layer two or three layers of thick-walled cells are seen.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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There seems little doubt that inverted women frequently tend to show minor anomalies of the piliferous system, and especially slight hypertrichosis and a masculine distribution of hair.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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If, as is not improbable, inversion is associated with some abnormal balance in the internal secretions, it is not difficult to understand this tendency to piliferous anomalies; and we know that the thyroid secretion, for instance, and much more the testicular and ovarian secretions, have a powerful influence on the hair.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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The more prominent tubercles, and spines or bristles arising from them, are hypertrophied piliferous warts, the warts, with the seta or hair which they bear, being common to all caterpillars.
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If the government camel insists on sticking its nose under Jersey girls 'skirts, can back-alley bush removal with rusty razors be far behind? some aficionados of adult entertainment from the 70's might be excited about the return of a tufted tarts and piliferous punani.
QandO 2009
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If the government camel insists on sticking its nose under Jersey girls 'skirts, can back-alley bush removal with rusty razors be far behind? some aficionados of adult entertainment from the 70's might be excited about the return of a tufted tarts and piliferous punani.
QandO 2009
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If the government camel insists on sticking its nose under Jersey girls 'skirts, can back-alley bush removal with rusty razors be far behind? some aficionados of adult entertainment from the 70's might be excited about the return of a tufted tarts and piliferous punani.
QandO 2009
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If the government camel insists on sticking its nose under Jersey girls 'skirts, can back-alley bush removal with rusty razors be far behind? some aficionados of adult entertainment from the 70's might be excited about the return of a tufted tarts and piliferous punani.
QandO 2009
reesetee commented on the word piliferous
Having or producing hair.
February 12, 2008