adpressed hairs along the plant's stem.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The branches and branchlets are tense and straight, crowded, adpressed and acute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

The joints are 2 in. long and 1 in. in diameter, cylindrical, with adpressed tubercles, ½ in. or more long, each tubercle bearing a tuft of long, straight, radiating spines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

The tap, tap, tap of the bill as it cuts into the wood serves to guide the observer to the spot where the woodpecker, with legs apart and tail adpressed to the tree, is at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

Body of great size, with head, neck, and legs elongated; carriage erect; tail small, sloping downwards, generally formed of 16 feathers; comb and wattle small; ear-lobe and face red; skin yellowish; feathers closely adpressed to the body; neck-hackles short, narrow, and hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

"Hair of the body rough, bristly, and straggling; that of the head shorter, and more closely adpressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

"Fur very fine, soft, and rather long, but adpressed, and the hidden portion is almost black, narrowly tipped with the reddish-brown, the sides of the hair being blackish-brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Feathers closely adpressed to the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

A most artfully coloured spider, lying on its back with its feet crossed over and closely adpressed to the body. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

A few lengthened piles, when adpressed to the body smooth, but reversed somewhat harsh and rough; tail cylindrical, long, gradually tapering; mouth elongated, regularly attenuated, ears moderate, rounded. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Trichome. glabrous: no hairs of any kind present. arachnoid, arachnose: with many fine, entangled hairs giving a cobwebby appearance. barbellate: with finely barbed hairs (barbellae). bearded: with long, stiff hairs. bristly: with stiff hair-like prickles. canescent: hoary with dense grayish-white pubescence. ciliate: marginally fringed with short hairs (cilia). ciliolate: minutely ciliate. floccose: with flocks of soft, woolly hairs, which tend to rub off. glandular: with a gland at the tip of the hair. hirsute: with rather rough or stiff hairs. hispid: with rigid, bristly hairs. hispidulous: minutely hispid. hoary: with a fine, close grayish-white pubescence. lanate, lanose: with woolly hairs. pilose: with soft, clearly separated hairs. puberulent, puberulous: with fine, minute hairs. pubescent: with soft, short and erect hairs. scabrous, scabrid: rough to the touch sericeous: silky appearance through fine, straight and appressed (lying close and flat) hairs. silky: with adpressed, s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference