glabrous

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Meissner corpuscle These nerve receptors lie just beneath the epidermis of glabrous skin, where they detect movement across the skin and fluttering touch.

From Nature

Try applying the samples on both the glabrous skin of the lips and the hairy skin of the forearm.

From Scientific American

When she meets him, Elsa has the impression "that his body was more like that of a sea lion" – Finn is entirely glabrous.

From The Guardian

Aug., Sept.—Leaves and sheaths very hairy, or nearly glabrous; the former about 1° long, not rigid; panicle 1–2° long, soon diffuse.

From Project Gutenberg

Its presence in the Tongan data does not seem to be representative of other Polynesians, who are generally described as more glabrous.

From Project Gutenberg