hairiness
hairiness noun: the characteristic of being hairy.
Noun
hairiness (countable and uncountable, plural hairinesses)
- The characteristic of being hairy.
- We have had (says he) another of this kind brought us out of the East-Indies, which being planted was in shew like the former, but came not to perfection, the unkindly season not suffering it to shew the flower; but of the Cods that were brought, some were smaller, shorter, and rounder then the...1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Observ. XXVI
- The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms)
- A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.
- There was a reduction in hairiness of yarn after warping by about 17% in comparison to the hairiness of the wound yarn.1978, Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association, Proceedings of the Technological Conference, page 91
hairiness meaning in Tamil and Telugu
hairiness in Tamil
- பிசிர்
hairiness in Telugu
- the characteristic of being hairy
- నూగు nūgu
Examples of hairiness in a sentence
- Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.1804, William Robert Broughton, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Book I, p. 92, footnote:
- Small reddened but said stubbornly, “The cow likes my singing.” ¶ Cows are different from humans; perhaps the hairiness of their ears strains sound.1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
Forms of hairiness
| plural | hairinesses |
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Origin of hairiness
From hairy + -ness.
Questions about hairiness
- What does hairiness mean?
- Hairiness means the characteristic of being hairy.
- What is hairiness in Tamil?
- Hairiness in Tamil is பிசிர். See Hairiness meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hairiness in a sentence?
- Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.
- What part of speech is hairiness?
- Hairiness is a noun.
- What is the plural of hairiness?
- The plural of hairiness is hairinesses.
Words near hairiness in the dictionary
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