Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The fine hair present on the body before puberty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the stipe of certain fungi.
Etymologies
- Latin, wool. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I imagined her hair now as something fine, short, almost like vellus.”
“Hair dissipates in the center, in a Christmas tree pattern, and this happens as hormones wane and the strand caliber reverts to that of weaker, vellus hair.”
“The growth of lots of vellus hair, for example, can be a sign of polycystic ovarian syndrome.”
“Many Asian women have dark peach fuzz or vellus hairs on their cheeks.”
“It won't take seed and grow: cells clot like sand, the vellus curling from both ends in tendrils.”
“Aureum vellus, procer閟que Gr鎐os, quos sibi adiunxit comites Ianson”
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“Tandem tamen, quod sciébat Iásonem nón sine auxilió deórum hóc negótium suscépisse, mútátá sententiá prómísit sé vellus tráditúrum, sí Iásón labórés duós difficillimós prius perfécisset; et cum”
“Quó cum vénissent, Iásoní et Médéae advenientibus occurrérunt, et vellus aureum lúminis éius causam esse cógnóvérunt.”
“Huic commissum erat vellus illud aureum quod Phrixus ólim ibi relíquerat.”
“Tum é náví égressus ad régem Peliam, quí régnum adhúc obtinébat, statim sé contulit, et vellere aureó mónstrátó ab eó postulávit ut régnum sibi tráderétur; Peliás enim pollicitus erat, sí Iásón vellus rettulisset, sé régnum eí tráditúrum.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vellus’.
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
abitur, abiturs, abscisic, achar, achars, acquis, addings, aerobot, aerobots, aguna, agunah, agunot and 1465 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
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culpability, piousfraud, capacitous, rhabdomyolysis, scapula, idiosyncrasy, quiescent, malignant, nefarious, sociological, sociopath, pathogen and 204 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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Stellar Six-Letter Words
I've been meaning to make this list for at least a year, to go with Really Cool Two-Letter Words, Three-Letter Words, Four-Letter Words, Slightly Less Cool Four-Letter Words, and Five-Letter Words....
degust, tattoo, quahog, anoxia, acetic, rugose, bathos, umlaut, mohawk, python, harbor, panzer and 78 more...
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cmmnwlth's list
infanta, bananaphone, pastafarian, cremains, noetic, lard, sveltoleum, marmoleum, louce, trifecta, d'or, defector and 29 more...
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Miscellany, pt. v
vaginant, vaginismus, voynich, vagile, vorticella, versute, vorspiel, vellus, viomycin, variorum, veltheimia
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Sexy and saucy words!
glabrous, gamine, svelte, toothsome, assignation, intrigue, ravish, besotted, dissolute, tumescence, coquette, coquet and 66 more...
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V words
vellus, vixen, vapid, vex, vitreously, vivacious, voluble, virtuoso, valor
Tweets
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shevek Calling actual peach fuzz vellus would be like a figure of speech in reverse. A speech in figure, or something like that. Aug 15, 2008
reesetee That's okay. This is Wordie. We can make it mean whatever we want. Or...we can make up another whole word for literal peach fuzz. :-D Aug 12, 2008
chained_bear Oh. *deflated* Aug 12, 2008
reesetee Wait--not real peach fuzz. It's usually defined as "the fine hair present on the body before puberty," right? Aug 11, 2008
chained_bear It has a name!! Yay! Aug 11, 2008
she Peach fuzz. :) Aug 11, 2008