Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bearing or producing hair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, bearing or tipped with hairs.
- In zoology, bearing hairs; hairy; piligerous: specifically, in entomology, noting the tubercles of caterpillars whence bundles of hairs arise.
Wiktionary
- adj. Containing or producing hair.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
- adj. Beset with hairs.
Etymologies
- pilus -iferous (Wiktionary)
- Latin pilus, hair + -ferous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Just below the piliferous layer two or three layers of thick-walled cells are seen.”
“The root-hairs are mere protrusions of the cells of the outermost layer of the cortex of the root and this layer is called the = piliferous layer =.”
“Exodermis the layer or layers of thickened cells beneath the piliferous layer of roots, 32.”
“There seems little doubt that inverted women frequently tend to show minor anomalies of the piliferous system, and especially slight hypertrichosis and a masculine distribution of hair.”
“If, as is not improbable, inversion is associated with some abnormal balance in the internal secretions, it is not difficult to understand this tendency to piliferous anomalies; and we know that the thyroid secretion, for instance, and much more the testicular and ovarian secretions, have a powerful influence on the hair.”
“The more prominent tubercles, and spines or bristles arising from them, are hypertrophied piliferous warts, the warts, with the seta or hair which they bear, being common to all caterpillars.”
“If the government camel insists on sticking its nose under Jersey girls 'skirts, can back-alley bush removal with rusty razors be far behind? some aficionados of adult entertainment from the 70's might be excited about the return of a tufted tarts and piliferous punani.”
“(oligotrichosis terminalis), approximating to the infantile type, while another presents a complex and very rare piliferous heterogeny.”
“Root-hair; 2. piliferous layer; 3. cortex; 4. endodermis; 5. pericycle; 6. xylem; 7. phloëm.]”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piliferous’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Life is rife .................
-ife- & -iferous : common and not-so-common words about life
fructiferous, ifere, glomuliferous, graniferous, guttiferales, lifen, manifest, nimbiferous, oviferous, roriferous, petaliferous, rangifer and 105 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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truman486's list
Masterbatory Aids
ensorcelled, scintilla, maudlin, lugubrious, frisson, praxis, copasetic, crotch, corollary, bandy, undulating, anthropomorphic and 65 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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tez's Words
tain, curlicue, eidolon, exoteric, puissant, ragamuffin, insouciant, yarrow, taciturn, mundane, vomitorium, tenebre and 140 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Say What?
words being converted to long-term memory
apostasy, ceilidh, gestalt, lugubrious, magnanimous, recalcitrant, sardonic, postprandial, obsequious, versimilitude, mellifluous, sanguine and 65 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Wild About Hairy
Hairy words. Much pilfered from G. Cook's Hairy list.
woolly, whiskered, villous, unshorn, unshaven, tufted, stubbly, shaggy, pubescent, pilose, piligerous, piliferous and 58 more...
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Hairy
Words meaning hairy.
piliferous, piligerous, pilose, pubescent, hirsute, villous, villose, comate, crinite, tomentose, comose, polytrichous and 7 more...
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burs
bristly words
bur, brad, bass, bristle, fastigiate, summa summarum, setaceous, styliferous, glochid, acicula, tagasaste, rigidulous and 6 more...
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reesetee Having or producing hair. Feb 12, 2008