Word.ws English Dictionary

hydrofuge

hydrofuge adjective: a hair pile made of very many tiny, closely-spaced hairs, forming a hydrophobic surface on the bodies of certain insects.

Adjective

hydrofuge (not comparable)

  1. A hair pile made of very many tiny, closely-spaced hairs, forming a hydrophobic surface on the bodies of certain insects.

Origin of hydrofuge

From hydro- + -fuge.

Questions about hydrofuge

What does hydrofuge mean?
Hydrofuge means a hair pile made of very many tiny, closely-spaced hairs, forming a hydrophobic surface on the bodies of certain insects.
What part of speech is hydrofuge?
Hydrofuge is an adjective.

Words near hydrofuge in the dictionary

  1. hydrofracs
  2. hydrofracture
  3. hydrofractured
  4. hydrofractures
  5. hydrofracturing
  6. hydrofuge
  7. hydrofurfural
  8. hydrogalvanic
  9. hydrogamous
  10. hydrogamy
  11. hydrogarnet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrofuge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hydrofuge.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hydrofuge. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.