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HAIRLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no hair or fur
Example:
a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail
Classified under:
Similar:
bald; bald-headed; bald-pated (lacking hair on all or most of the scalp)
balding (getting bald)
beardless; smooth-faced (lacking hair on the face)
depilatory (able to remove hair or render hairless)
depilous (completely hairless)
glabrescent (lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless)
glabrous (having no hair or similar growth; smooth)
naked-muzzled (having a muzzle that is hairless)
naked-tailed (having a tail that is hairless)
nonhairy (without hair)
tonsured (having a bald spot either shaved or natural)
Antonym:
hairy (having or covered with hair)
Derivation:
hairlessness (the condition of being void of hair)
Context examples:
The common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, is a small primate characterized by a hairless face with a white mark on the forehead and is covered in grey fur with white tufts of hair surrounding its ears.
(Marmoset, NCI Thesaurus)
Sometimes he thought of Judge Miller’s big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley, and of the cement swimming-tank, and Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, and Toots, the Japanese pug; but oftener he remembered the man in the red sweater, the death of Curly, the great fight with Spitz, and the good things he had eaten or would like to eat.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen grey eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
