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hairs
 
Noun hair has 6 senses
  1. hair - dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"
    --1 is a kind of     body covering
    --1 is a part of integumentary system
    --1 has part: hairline; part
    --1 has substances: keratin, ceratin
    --1 has particulars:
     coat, pelage; guard hair; mane; forelock, foretop; beard; body hair; down, pile; mane, head of hair; cowlick; hairdo, hair style, coiffure; lock, curl, ringlet, whorl; beard, face fungus, whiskers; mustache, moustache; pubic hair, bush, crotch hair; eyebrow, brow, supercilium; eyelash, lash, cilium
  2. hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whisker - a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
    --2 is a kind of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
  3. hair, fuzz, tomentum - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"
    --3 is a kind of plant process, enation
    --3 has particulars: stinging hair; coma; beard
  4. hair, pilus - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"
    --4 is a kind of filament, filum
    --4 is a part of mammal
    --4 has particulars: ingrown hair
  5. haircloth, hair - cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
    --5 is a kind of fabric, cloth, material, textile
  6. hair - a filamentous projection or process on an organism
    --6 is a kind of     process, outgrowth, appendage
    --6 has particulars:
     bristle; whisker, vibrissa, sensory hair; seta; pilus
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