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HAIRY
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Irregular inflected forms: hairier , hairiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hazardous and frightening
Example:
hairy moments in the mountains
Classified under:
Similar:
alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or covered with hair
Example:
a hairy caterpillar
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
woolly; woolly-haired; wooly; wooly-haired (covered with dense often matted or curly hairs)
wiry (of hair that resembles wire in stiffness)
wire-haired; wiry-coated ((especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair)
velvety-furred; velvety-haired (having hair that feels like velvet)
tomentose; tomentous (densely covered with short matted woolly hairs)
thick-haired (having thick hair)
stiff-haired (having stiff hair)
soft-haired (having soft hair)
snake-haired ((of monsters) having snakes for hair)
smooth-haired (having hair that feels smooth)
silver-haired (having hair the color of silver)
silky-haired (having hair that resembles silk)
short-haired (with short hair)
shock-headed (having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair)
rough-haired (having hair that feels rough)
pilary; pilose; pilous (covered with hairs especially fine soft ones)
pappose ((of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles)
long-haired (with long hair)
lanate; woolly (covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments)
hispid ((of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles)
glossy-coated; glossy-furred; glossy-haired (having glossy hair)
fuzzed; fuzzy (covering with fine light hairs)
furred; furry (covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs)
furlike (resembling fur)
floccose ((of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs)
downy; puberulent; pubescent; sericeous (covered with fine soft hairs or down)
dark-coated; dark-haired (covered with dark hair)
curly-coated; curly-haired (covered with curly hair)
comal; comate; comose (of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair)
coarse-furred; coarse-haired (having coarse hair or fur)
canescent; hoary (covered with fine whitish hairs or down)
Antonym:
hairless (having no hair or fur)
Derivation:
hair (a filamentous projection or process on an organism)
hair (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)
hairiness (the quality of having hair)
Context examples:
A drug used to treat AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma in certain patients, hairy cell leukemia, and melanoma that has been removed by surgery.
(IFN alpha-2B, NCI Dictionary)
The active ingredient in a drug that is used to treat hairy cell leukemia and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
(Nipent, NCI Dictionary)
His half-minute had not enabled him to recover his breath, and his huge, hairy chest was rising and falling with a quick, loud panting like a spent hound.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This allele, which encodes hairy/enhancer-of-split related with YRPW motif protein 2, plays a role in both Notch signal transduction and transcriptional repression.
(HEY2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes hairy/enhancer-of-split related with YRPW motif protein 1, plays a role in protein dimerization and the negative regulation of transcription.
(HEY1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Hairy/enhancer-of-split related with YRPW motif protein 1 (304 aa, ~33 kDa) is encoded by the human HEY1 gene.
(Hairy/Enhancer-of-Split Related with YRPW Motif Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)
Hairy/enhancer-of-split related with YRPW motif protein 2 (337 aa, ~36 kDa) is encoded by the human HEY2 gene.
(Hairy/Enhancer-Of-Split Related With YRPW Motif Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)
His tongue felt dry and large, as though covered with a fine hairy growth, and it tasted bitter in his mouth.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Researchers added that other plants have been shown to offer the same kind of promise, including parsley, Artemesia annua (sweet wormwood), and peanut hairy roots.
(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)
The same short, broad figure, the same heavy shoulders, the same forward hang of the arms, the same bristling beard merging itself in the hairy chest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
