hairiness

• “In the spirit of "everything matchstick thin", I added enoki mushrooms for extra "hairiness" - and it didn't hurt at all!”

  she who eats

• “His skin was different too, coarser feeling, and his hairiness was a delight.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Princess

• “His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window.”

  The Sign of Four

• “Applicable when possession is normative. e.g., blindness and sight, toothlessness and toothedness, hairiness and baldness.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “It made his strength, his height, his hairiness, his solidity more real and present and caused Malik to feel proud of the life they had before Ali came.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

• “Would it ignite a certain uncomfortable awareness of my female smoothness and your manly hairiness?”

  Fictionaut: Your Beard And My Hand That Will Never Stroke It

• “The shapes of our eyes, noses and skulls; the color of our eyes and our hair; the heaviness, height and hairiness of our bodies are all, individually, poor guides to ancestry.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups

• “Cheryl was a small woman, elfin almost -- short hair, delicate bones, tiny hands and feet, very tidy, always neatly dressed, and pale, especially in contrast to big, dark Eddie Alfanta, who boasted of his hairiness.”

  Fictionaut: Beard

• “In heterothermic (cold-blooded) invertebrates, hairiness and melanism (dark pigmentation) enable them to warm up in the summer season.”

  General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels

• “For example, plant ecologists could measure leaf size, thickness, lobiness, chemical content, hairiness, density and the rate of water loss and species differences could be evaluated from any one of these measures or any number simultaneously.”

  Ecophylogenetics

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