Noun
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a filamentous projection or process on an organism
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cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair
used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
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any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
"there is a hair in my soup"
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filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
"peach fuzz"
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a very small distance or space
"they escaped by a hair's-breadth"
"they lost the election by a whisker"
- hair's breadth -
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head)
helps to prevent heat loss
"he combed his hair"
"each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"