pilose

American  

[pahy-lohs] / ˈpaɪ loʊs /

adjective

1. covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.

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pilose British  

/ ˈpaɪləʊz, paɪˈlɒsɪtɪ /

adjective

1. biology covered with fine soft hairs

   pilose leaves

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Other Word Forms

• pilosity noun
• subpilose adjective
• subpilosity noun

Etymology

Origin of pilose

First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin pilōsus “shaggy”; pile ³, -ose ¹

Example Sentences

If you ignore that pilose caterpillar he inexplicably adheres to his chin, he's cuter than a basket full of stray koalas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2010

Thorax deep black, pilose; abdomen tawny along each side.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

Ascophore stipitate, rather fleshy, closed at first, then cup-shaped, becoming somewhat plane, the margin slightly incurved, externally pilose or downy, pale gray or sometimes quite dark.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Spikelets 2–4-flowered, compressed, the rhachis pilose on one side, jointed, produced above the flowers into a hairy pedicel.

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

P. 2-4 cm. convexo-plane, disc with erect pilose fascicles, edge fibrillose, mouse-grey; g. quite entire, whitish then smoky; s. 3-6 cm. slender, wavy, floccosely scaly, apex naked; sp. 8-9 � 4-5. cincinnata, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George