hair
hair Lexical Profile
hair Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The mass of fine, thread-like strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, or other animals, particularly those growing on the human scalp.
"She tied her long brown hair into a ponytail before the soccer match began."
A single, cylindrical, thread-like outgrowth from a follicle in the epidermis of a mammal.
"The forensic investigator found a single blonde hair on the back of the driver's seat."
A fine, filamentous structure resembling a mammalian hair, found on the epidermis of a plant, insect, or other organism.
"The leaves of the carnivorous plant are covered in tiny sensory hairs that trigger when an insect lands on them."
Word Nuance & Usage
'Hair' is typically treated as an uncountable noun when referring to the entire mass of strands on a head, but functions as a countable noun when referring to individual, isolated strands.
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'hǣr', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch 'haar' and German 'Haar'.
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