Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The coat of a mammal, consisting of hair, fur, or wool, as distinct from bare skin.
- noun Something that resembles the coat of a mammal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal: a common technical term in zoölogy, used as plumage is with regard to birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
fur , or any other form of thecoat of amammal collectively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But, remember, the pelage must be of the long and shaggy variety.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris Presents: Paris Fashion Report Beth Arnold 2010
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It's not surprising, then, that Ms. Prada, along with other designers known as much for their wit as their sartorial skills Isaac Mizrahi and Scott Sternberg, to name two have also made colorful wares in real pelage.
So Chic It's Unreal Lauren Goodman 2011
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Abstract: Based on examination of molecular data and pelage patterns, it has recently been suggested that the island populations of the clouded leopard, traditionally considered a subspecies, may, in fact constitute a separate species.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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The new species has several subtle morphological and phenotypic characters that distinguish it from its sibling species E. edwardii, the most striking of which is the presence of a tail-tuft, as well as the color of the flanks and the ventral pelage.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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The new species is obviously different from the known species based on pelage coloration, external measurements and cranial characteristics, according to the researchers.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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They lost their foxy pelage and became piebald black and white, like Welsh collies.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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They lost their foxy pelage and became piebald black and white, like Welsh collies.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Not to worry, the same hot middle-aged firewomerns who saved him will brush out his pelage with crushed windmill cookies.
i srry…reely. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Can any romance heroine resist digging her fingers into her werewolf boyfriend's plush pelage?
Archive 2009-05-01 Victoria Janssen 2009
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On them, Nowak (1999) wrote ‘The pinna of the external ear is well developed, but is partly concealed in the pelage’ (p. 7).
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
reesetee commented on the word pelage
The coat of a mammal, consisting of hair, fur, or wool.
June 8, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word pelage
"Vollosovich speculated that when it died, the mammoth was molting, losing its summer coat and growing its winter pelage."
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant, (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 99
September 20, 2008