OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2384

hair

/hɛə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cabellera • cabello • capilar • pelambrera • pelamen • pelo • piloso
A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-…
pelo
The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined bene…
In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
milano • vello
A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
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