OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19571

fuzz

/fʌz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pelusa • vello
A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.
Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.
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