pilose
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of pilose
First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin pilōsus “shaggy”; see pile 3, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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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
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 Asa Gray
P. umbil. convex, very thin; gills or folds obliterated; s. capillary, short, pilose, base bulbillose; sp. rough, 9 long. retosta, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. sulcate, minutely squamulose, tawny; g. few; s. blackish purple, pilose below, glabrous above. epichloe, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The first glume is elliptic, oblong, irregularly obtuse, about 11-nerved, margins slightly infolded with long pilose hairs throughout, more along the margin.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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