hirsute

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Their bronzed faces and thick necks were hirsute, as if overgrown with moss, tangled or crispy.

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  1. adjective Covered with hair; hairy.
  2. adjective Botany Covered with stiff or coarse hairs.

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  • He's also very hirsute (I've always wanted to use that word in a story). —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 04 - April 2007 (v1.0) [html]
  • So a collection of circuits with preprogrammed responses is a citizen but the hirsute are not human. —  AnalogSFF,December2007
  • Some of the funniest over-the-top performances are back in Hollywood: Tom Cruise as a bald, very hirsute, and very cynical producer, Les Grossman; and Matthew McConaughey as "Pecker," —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Half a dozen weather-beaten shrimpers (in their brown jumpers, and with the fringe of hair running beneath the chin from ear to ear--that hirsute ornament so dear to East Anglian fishermen) were lounging about the wharf, or mending the small- meshed trawl-nets wherein they draw what spoil they may from the depleted roads All were grizzled, most were over seventy if wrinkled skin and white hair may be taken as signs of age. —  Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"
  • In such spirit specimens as I have seen the colour was darker than in life, but the soft silkiness of the fur could be seen to advantage as it floated in the clear liquid; the lower parts are whitish, tinged with fawn; feet with brown hairs above; ears small and hirsute, and the tail is also hairy SIZE.--Head and body, 2-1/4 inches; tail, 2-3/8 inches NO. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
 

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  1. Latin hirsūtus, hairy, bristly.

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  1. = French hirsute = Spanish Portuguese hirsuto = Italian irsuto, from Latin hirsutus, rough, shaggy, bristly: cf. hirtus, rough, hairy, shaggy; perhaps ult. akin to horrere, bristle: see horrent, horrid.
 

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/hərˈsjut/
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