glabrous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- glabrousness noun
- subglabrous adjective
Etymology
Origin of glabrous
1630–40; < Latin glabr- (stem of glaber ) smooth, hairless + -ous
Example Sentences
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They are found in both glabrous and hairy skin.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
They, too, are found primarily in the glabrous skin on the fingertips and eyelids.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Try applying the samples on both the glabrous skin of the lips and the hairy skin of the forearm.
From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2015
The face, after all, includes another glabrous surface of the body, so cooling it with water might help stave off exhaustion.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2012
Nearly glabrous; leaves heart-shaped or truncate at the base, coarsely and sharply toothed, acuminate, not lobed; panicle small and loose; style slender; berries of the size of a pea, 1–3-seeded, bluish or greenish.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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