Synonyms: hair
Definition: a filamentous projection or process on an organism
Similar words: process, appendage, outgrowth
Definition: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
Usage: a bony process
Definition: cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
Similar words: fabric, material, cloth, textile
Definition: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
Usage: the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent; woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC; she measured off enough material for a dress
Definition: any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
Usage: there is a hair in my soup
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: body covering
Definition: any covering for the body or a body part
Synonyms: hair, fuzz, tomentum
Definition: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
Usage: peach fuzz
Similar words: plant process, enation
Definition: a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
Definition: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude