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| Main Entry: |
crest
 [krest] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | topknot on head of animal |
| Synonyms: | aigrette, caruncle, chine, cockscomb, comb, crown, feather, hogback, mane, panache, plume, ridge, tassel, tuft |
| Notes: | a wave's foamy top is its crest; spray blown up from wave tops is spindrift |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | mop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thick mass of hair |
| Synonyms: | mane, shock, tangle, thatch, tresses |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Example Sentences
- His shoulders were square and solid, his mane of hair apparently as dark and as defiant as ever.
- The plates show a faint sense of motion, though hardly noticeable, in the horse's mane and tail.
- She angles the untame strands until my mane is plowed and parted.
| Main Entry: | hair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
achaetous, acomous, aurocephalous, balding, barbatulous, barbigerous, bushy, calvous, capillary, capillose, clean, comose, crinal, crinicultural, crinigerous, crinose, cymotrichous, depilous, euthycomic, glabrous, grizzled, hairy, highlighted, hirsute, hirsutorufous, hispid, layered, leiotrichous, lissotrichous, man, melanocomous, mop, mystacial, peach fuzz, philocomal, pilar, piliform, pilose, processed, ropy, smarmy, strawberry blond, stubbly, teased, towheaded, tweezed, ulotrichous, unshaven, upswept
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