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The state of being covered with hair especially of soft texture.

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Usage examples (4)
  • The increase in the growth of hair at this time can have only one interpretation, viz., that the ancestors of man represented a very much higher degree of pilosity than...
  • For the cause rendered, that “the hairs about the eyelids are for the safeguard of the sight,” doth not impugn the cause rendered, that “pilosity is incident to orifices...
  • "pilosity is incident to orifices of moisture -- muscosi fontes, &c."
  • To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.
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