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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hair on animals |
| Synonyms: | brush, coat, down, fluff, fuzz, hide, jacket, lint, pelage, pelt, pile, skin, wool |
| Notes: | a fir is any of various evergreen trees; fur is the pelt or coat of an animal, or a garment made of the fur of an animal |
| Main Entry: | fuzz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fluff |
| Synonyms: | down, dust ball, dust bunnies, fiber, floss, fur, hair, lanugo, lint, nap, pile |
| Antonyms: | smoothness |
| Main Entry: | hair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threadlike growth on animate being |
| Synonyms: | beard, bristle, cilium, coiffure, cowlick, cut, down, eyebrow, eyelash, feeler, fiber, filament, fluff, fringe, frizzies, fur, grass, haircut, hairstyle, lock, mane, mop, moustache, quill, ruff, shock, sideburn, split ends, strand, thatch, tress, tuft, vibrissa, villus, whiskers, wig, wool |
| Notes: | hair is any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; a hare is a large, long-eared and long-legged rabbit; an heir is a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another |
| Main Entry: | jacket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering |
| Synonyms: | case, casing, coat, envelope, folder, fur, hide, parka, pelt, sheath, skin, threads, tunic, wrapper, wrapping |
| Main Entry: | skin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer covering, especially of animate being |
| Synonyms: | bark, carapace, case, casing, coating, crust, cutis, derma, dermis, epidermis, fell, film, fur, hide, hull, husk, integument, jacket, membrane, outside, parchment, peel, pelt, rind, sheath, sheathing, shell, shuck, slough, surface, tegument, vellum |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | body, core, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | wool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fabric |
| Synonyms: | cashmere, fleece, fur, hair, merino, mohair, pelotage, tweed, worsted, yarn |
| Main Entry: | wrap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clothing that is worn over for warmth |
| Synonyms: | blanket, cape, cloak, coat, cover, fur, jacket, mantle, shawl, stole |
| Notes: | rap (noun) is a reproach for some lapse or misdeed - (verb) strike sharply and swiftly; a wrap (noun) is a cloak that is folded around a person - (verb) arrange or fold as a cover or protection to wrap is to enclose in a covering; to rap is to knock or tap on something, or create a rhythmic type of music |
| Main Entry: | lamina |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skin |
| Synonyms: | bark, carapace, case, casing, coating, crust, cutis, derma, dermis, epidermis, fell, film, fur, hide, hull, husk, integument, jacket, membrane, outside, parchment, peel, pelt, rind, sheath, sheathing, shell, shuck, slough, surface, tegument, vellum |
| Main Entry: | stole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrap |
| Synonyms: | blanket, cape, cloak, coat, cover, fur, jacket, mantle, shawl |
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