About The Word Hirsute
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Hirsute
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What's The Definition Of Hirsute?
[adj] having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hirsute: canescent | comal | comate | comose | downy | floccose | furlike | furred | furry | fuzzed | fuzzy | hairy | hispid | hoary | lanate | long-haired | pappose | pilary | pilose | pilous | puberulent | pubescent | sericeous | shock-headed | short-haired | tomentose | tomentous | wire-haired | woolly | wooly Related Terms | Find terms related to Hirsute: barbellate | bristled | bristling | bristly | bushy | cirrose | downy | feathery | fleecy | flocculent | flossy | fluffy | furry | fuzzy | glochidiate | hairy | hispid | lanate | matted | nappy | peachy | pilose | pinnate | pubescent | setaceous | setose | setous | shagged | shaggy | strigal | strigate | strigose | stubbled | stubbly | studded | unshorn | velvety | whiskered | woolly See Also | Hirsute In Webster's Dictionary \Hir*sute"\, a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus
horrid. Cf. {Horrid}.]
1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
2. Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.]
Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. --Life of A.
Wood.
3. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. --Gray.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of
certain birds.
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