Main entry: hair
Definition: a filamentous projection or process on an organism
Definition: cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
Definition: any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
Usage: there is a hair in my soup
Main entry: hair
Definition: 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
Main entry: hair, fuzz, tomentum
Definition: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
Usage: peach fuzz
Main entry: whisker, hair, hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth
Definition: a very small distance or space
Usage: they escaped by a hair's-breadth; they lost the election by a whisker