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Pilose   Listen
adjective
Pilose  adj.  
1.
Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. "The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering."
2.
(Zool.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.
3.
(Bot.) Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.





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"Pilose" Quotes from Famous Books



... lax. The over-all color dorsally in fresh winter pelage in most specimens is paler (more buffy) than summer pelage, the sides are markedly buffy, and the venter is whitish; even the tail is more pilose and more sharply bicolored than in summer. Adults molt, usually completely but occasionally only partially, at least twice a year—once in spring (in May and June in Nebraskan specimens) from winter to summer pelage, and once in autumn (in October ...
— Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions • J. Knox Jones


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