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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. covered with hairs especially fine soft ones;
[syn: pilous, pilose, pilary]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pilose adj 1: covered with hairs especially fine soft ones [syn: pilous, pilose, pilary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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