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hair
A filamentous projection or process on an organism
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noun
A filamentous projection or process on an organism
noun
Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
noun
Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
“There is a hair in my soup”
noun
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
“He combed his hair”
noun
Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
“Peach fuzz”
noun
A very small distance or space
“They escaped by a hair's breadth”
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There is a hair in my soup
He combed his hair
Each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
Peach fuzz
They escaped by a hair's breadth
They lost the election by a whisker
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