"hairing" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "present participle and gerund of hair"
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "hairings",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1973, Kenneth G. V. Smith, Teresa Clay, John Smart, Insects and other arthropods of medical importance, page 128",
          "text": "Base of abdomen thickly covered with silvery-yellow to golden hairing and strikingly contrasting in colour with remainder of abdomen, which appears partly or entirely black with black hairing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Roger Ward Crosskey, A revisionary classification of the Rutiliini, page 13",
          "text": "The presence or absence, or extent, of hairing on different parts of the body can provide valuable taxonomic characters at species-group, or genus-group levels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark",
          "text": "Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.",
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        "A distinctive pattern of hair growth."
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          "hair",
          "hair"
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          "growth"
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  "word": "hairing"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1973, Kenneth G. V. Smith, Teresa Clay, John Smart, Insects and other arthropods of medical importance, page 128",
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        },
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          "ref": "1973, Roger Ward Crosskey, A revisionary classification of the Rutiliini, page 13",
          "text": "The presence or absence, or extent, of hairing on different parts of the body can provide valuable taxonomic characters at species-group, or genus-group levels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.",
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