"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
    Sense id: en-vellus_hair-en-noun-DzmbToYs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Mongolian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Hair Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Mongolian translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Hair: 58 42
  2. An individual strand of vellus hair Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-vellus_hair-en-noun-TQ1XXlGC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (thin body hair): шар үс (šar üs) (Mongolian), vello [masculine] (Spanish), ขนเพชร (kǒn-pét) (Thai)
Disambiguation of 'thin body hair': 48 52

Inflected forms

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