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hairinesses

hairinesses is the plural of hairiness.

Meaning of hairiness

Noun

hairiness (countable and uncountable, plural hairinesses)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Questions about hairinesses

What is hairinesses the plural of?
Hairinesses is the plural of hairiness.

Words near hairinesses in the dictionary

  1. hairier
  2. hairies
  3. hairiest
  4. hairily
  5. hairiness
  6. hairinesses
  7. hairing
  8. hairings
  9. hairism
  10. hairist
  11. hairists

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