pilose

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If you ignore that pilose caterpillar he inexplicably adheres to his chin, he's cuter than a basket full of stray koalas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2010

P. and s. with a brown pilose covering. var. exannulatus, Cke.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. sulcate, minutely squamulose, tawny; g. few; s. blackish purple, pilose below, glabrous above. epichloe, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-4 cm. convexo-plane, disc with erect pilose fascicles, edge fibrillose, mouse-grey; g. quite entire, whitish then smoky; s. 3-6 cm. slender, wavy, floccosely scaly, apex naked; sp. 8-9 � 4-5. cincinnata, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The first glume is elliptic, oblong, irregularly obtuse, about 11-nerved, margins slightly infolded with long pilose hairs throughout, more along the margin.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.