hair
1. 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 (Freq. 59)
- he combed his hair
- each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
• Derivationally related forms:
hairy
• Hypernyms:
body covering
• Hyponyms:
coat, pelage, guard hair, mane, forelock,
foretop, beard, body hair, down, pile, head of hair,
cowlick, hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif,
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl, facial hair, pubic hair,
bush, crotch hair, eyebrow, brow, supercilium, eyelash,
lash, cilium
• Part Holonyms:
integumentary system
• Substance Meronyms:
keratin, ceratin
• Part Meronyms:
hairline, part, parting
2. a very small distance or space
- they escaped by a hair's-breadth
- they lost the election by a whisker
• Syn:
hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker
• Hypernyms:
small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
3. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
- peach fuzz
• Syn:
fuzz, tomentum
• Hypernyms:
plant process, enation
• Hyponyms:
stinging hair, beard
4. any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
- there is a hair in my soup
• Syn:
pilus
• Derivationally related forms:
pilar (for: pilus)
• Hypernyms:
filament, filum
• Hyponyms:
ingrown hair
• Part Holonyms:
mammal, mammalian
5. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair;
used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
• Syn:
haircloth
• Hypernyms:
fabric, cloth, material, textile
6. a filamentous projection or process on an organism
• Derivationally related forms:
hairy
• Hypernyms:
process, outgrowth, appendage
• Hyponyms:
bristle, whisker, vibrissa, sensory hair, seta, pilus
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