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 ordown ;piliferous .
Etymologies
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Latin pilus hair + -gerous: compare French piligère.
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Examples
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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.
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