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hairyness

hairyness is the alternative spelling 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

Origin of hairyness

From hairy + -ness.

Questions about hairyness

What is hairyness the alternative spelling of?
Hairyness is the alternative spelling of hairiness.

Words near hairyness in the dictionary

  1. hairy-tailed moles
  2. hairyback
  3. hairybacks
  4. hairyfish
  5. hairyfishes
  6. hairyness
  7. hairytail mole
  8. hairytail moles
  9. HAIs
  10. Haishenwai
  11. Haishenwei

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