Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Covered with hair or fur; pilous or pilose; piliferous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Etymologies
- Latin pilus hair + -gerous: compare French piligère. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When you take your seat in the butcher's shambles he provides you with a copy of Puck because its jokes are so excruciatingly painful that it pulls your piligerous annex out with a stump-extractor and rubbed aqua fortis into your face with a bath brick, the physical ill would be forgotten in the mental agony.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piligerous’.
-
Foyle's Philavery
A selection from Christopher Foyle's book, Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words, which I was delighted to learn about here.
abligurition, arcifinious, batterfang, bottomry, broggle, brool, cacoepy, cark, dangleation, dasyphyllous, dentiloquy, deglute and 93 more...
-
rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
-
Hairy
Words meaning hairy.
piliferous, piligerous, pilose, pubescent, hirsute, villous, villose, comate, crinite, tomentose, comose, polytrichous and 7 more...
-
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...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for piligerous.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.