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. 2-5 cm. exp. obsoletely umb. reddish-yellow, variegated with saffron-red, innate, pilose adpressed scales, then pale; g. subdecur. crowded; s. 5-7 cm. stuffed then hollow, nearly equal, scaly, colour of p.; sp.

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. umbil. convex, very thin; gills or folds obliterated; s. capillary, short, pilose, base bulbillose; sp. rough, 9 long. retosta, 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.