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PELAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal

Synonyms:

coat; pelage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pelage" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pelage"):

fur (dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel))

fleece; wool (outer coat of especially sheep and yaks)

Holonyms ("pelage" is a part of...):

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

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