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

Spikelets 2–4-flowered, compressed, the rhachis pilose on one side, jointed, produced above the flowers into a hairy pedicel.

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

The pileus is fleshy, obsoletely umbonate, growing pale, variegated with saffron-red, adpressed, innate, pilose scales.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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. conical then exp. almost smooth, pale brown, thin, slightly pilose; g. crowded, narrow, rosy violet then greyish brown; s. white, shining, springing from a copious creeping mycelium; sp. 4-5 long.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George