pilose

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pi=lose

CIDE DICTIONARY

pilose, a. [L. pilosus, fr. pilus hair. See Pile.].

•  Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.  [1913 Webster]

  "The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering."  [1913 Webster]
•  Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.  [1913 Webster]
•  Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pilose, adj. (also pilous) covered with hair.

Derivative

pilosity n.

Etymology

L pilosus f. pilus hair

THESAURUS

pilose

bristly, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, whiskered, woolly

ROGET THESAURUS

pilose

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.