Usually means: Covered with soft, fine hair.
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  1. pilous: Merriam-Webster
  2. pilous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pilous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pilous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pilous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pilous, pilous: Wordnik
  7. pilous: Wiktionary
  8. pilous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pilous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pilous, pilous: Dictionary.com
  11. Pilous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pilous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. pilous: Rhymezone
  14. Pilous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. pilous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. pilous: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pilous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pilous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Covered with fine hair; pilose.

Similar:
hirsute, hairy, pilose, pileous, piligerous, pilar, subpilose, piliferous, lanate, lanuginose, more...

Opposite:
glabrous, bald, hairless

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Similar:
hirsute, hairy, pilose, pileous, piligerous, pilar, subpilose, piliferous, lanate, lanuginose, more...

Opposite:
glabrous, bald, hairless



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