hair

Nouns

(n) a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
- he combed his hair
- each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
(n) a very small distance or space
- they escaped by a hair's-breadth
- they lost the election by a whisker
hairsbreadth, hair's-breadth, whisker,
(n) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
- peach fuzz
fuzz, tomentum,
(n) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
- there is a hair in my soup
pilus,
(n) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments haircloth,
(n) a filamentous projection or process on an organism

Synonyms

hairsbreadth hair's-breadth whisker fuzz tomentum pilus haircloth

Words of close approximity

haik hail

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