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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clump of strands of something |
| Synonyms: | bunch, cluster, collection, cowlick, feathers, group, knot, plumage, ruff, shock, topknot, tussock |
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| Main Entry: | crest |
| 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 |
| Notes: | hair is any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; a hare is a large, long-eared and long-legged rabbit; an heir is a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another |
| Main Entry: | knot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lump; crowd |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, assemblage, assortment, band, bunch, circle, clique, clump, cluster, collection, company, crew, gang, gathering, group, heap, mass, mob, pack, pile, set, squad, swarm, tuft |
| Notes: | a nautical mile is also a geological mile or admiralty mile; a knot is the unit for measuring nautical miles |
| Main Entry: | wad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ball of something |
| Synonyms: | back, block, boodle, bunch, bundle, chunk, clump, cushion, fortune, gathering, heap, hunk, lining, lump, mass, mint, nugget, packet, pad, pile, plug, pot, ream, roll, slew, stuff, tuft, wadding |
| Main Entry: | wisp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strand |
| Synonyms: | bit, lock, piece, shock, shred, snippet, string, thread, tuft, twist |
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| Main Entry: | hair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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