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piloerect

piloerect verb: to produce piloerection.

Verb

piloerect (third-person singular simple present piloerects, present participle piloerecting, simple past and past participle piloerected)

  1. (intransitive) To produce piloerection.
    • The ability of some humans to consciously piloerect suggests even more similarity between humans and non-human animals.2022 September, Jonathon McPhetres, Janis H. Zickfeld, “The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide for future research”, in International Journal of...

Forms of piloerect

third-person singular presentpiloerects
present participlepiloerecting
past participlepiloerected
pastpiloerected

Origin of piloerect

From pilo- + erect.

Questions about piloerect

What does piloerect mean?
Piloerect means to produce piloerection.
What part of speech is piloerect?
Piloerect is a verb.
What is the past tense of piloerect?
The past tense of piloerect is piloerected.

Words near piloerect in the dictionary

  1. piloceratids
  2. pilocereine
  3. pilocyte
  4. pilocytes
  5. pilocytic
  6. piloerect
  7. piloerected
  8. piloerecting
  9. piloerection
  10. piloerections
  11. piloerector

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