Pilose

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pilose \Pi*lose"\, a. [L. pilosus, fr. pilus hair. See {Pile}.]
     1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering.
                                                    --Owen.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Bot.) Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long
        hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pilose
       adj : covered with hairs especially fine soft ones [syn: {pilous},
              {pilary}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "pilose":
     bristly, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, hairy,
     hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pubescent, shagged, shaggy,
     unshorn, whiskered, woolly