noun
- 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)
- usage: "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"
- A very small distance or space.
- usage: "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
- synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker
- Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant.
- usage: "peach fuzz"
- Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.
- usage: "there is a hair in my soup"
- synonyms: pilus
- Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments.
- synonyms: haircloth
- A filamentous projection or process on an organism. .
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