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[syn: pilous, pilose, pilary]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pilose \Pi*lose"\, a. [L. pilosus, fr. pilus hair. See Pile.]
   1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.
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            The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering.
                                                  --Owen.
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   2. (Zool.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.
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   3. (Bot.) Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long
      hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pilose
    adj 1: covered with hairs especially fine soft ones [syn:
           pilous, pilose, pilary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "pilose":
   bristly, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, hairy,
   hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pubescent, shagged, shaggy,
   unshorn, whiskered, woolly