"vellus hair" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: vellus hairs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} vellus hair (countable and uncountable, plural vellus hairs)
  1. Short, fine, light-colored, and barely noticeable hair that develops on most of a person's body during childhood. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-vellus_hair-en-noun-DzmbToYs Disambiguation of Hair: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 55 45
  2. An individual strand of vellus hair Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Hair Translations (thin body hair): шар үс (šar üs) (Mongolian), vello [masculine] (Spanish), ขนเพชร (kǒn-pét) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-vellus_hair-en-noun-TQ1XXlGC Disambiguation of Hair: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'thin body hair': 43 57

Inflected forms

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