Usually means: Protein filaments growing from follicles.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word hairs:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hairs: Merriam-Webster
  2. hairs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hairs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hair's, Hairs, hair's, hairs, hairs: Wordnik
  5. hairs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Hairs, hairs: Wiktionary
  7. hairs: Dictionary.com
  8. hairs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hairs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Hairs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hairs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hairs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Hairs: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  3. Hairs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HAIRS: Acronym Finder
  2. Hairs: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hairs: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hair)

noun:  (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
noun:  (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
noun:  (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
noun:  (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
noun:  (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
noun:  (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
noun:  (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the hair from.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
verb:  (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
verb:  To string the bow for a violin.
noun:  A surname.
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