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Hirsute

//hɚˈsut// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.

    "A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or covered with hair wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that is hirsute. rare

    "Virchow is mentioned as having described the “Russian hairy men” the “hirsutes,” who, although their bodies were covered with a thick growth of hair were nevertheless almost entirely devoid of teeth."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).

Etymology 2

From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).

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