Usually means: Becoming smooth by losing hairs.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (glabrescent)

▸ adjective:  Becoming glabrous, hairless, or smooth; glabrate.

Similar:
glabrate, subglabrescent, subglabrous, subglabrate, glaucescent, glassyheaded, glaireous, glib, glazy, glaucine, more...

Opposite:
hairy, hirsute, fuzzy, woolly

Types:
hairless, bald, beardless, eyeless, toothless, tailless, wingless, legless, armless, more...

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Similar:
glabrate, subglabrescent, subglabrous, subglabrate, glaucescent, glassyheaded, glaireous, glib, glazy, glaucine, more...

Opposite:
hairy, hirsute, fuzzy, woolly

Types:
hairless, bald, beardless, eyeless, toothless, tailless, wingless, legless, armless, more...



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