glabrous

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They are found in both glabrous and hairy skin.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

They, too, are found primarily in the glabrous skin on the fingertips and eyelids.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2015

The face, after all, includes another glabrous surface of the body, so cooling it with water might help stave off exhaustion.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2012

Capsule 10–20-seeded.—Leafy-stemmed perennials, glabrous except the ciliate petioles, not punctate, the leaves all opposite, but mostly in seeming whorls on the flowering branches.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa