glabrate

[gley-breyt, -brit]

gla·brate

[gley-breyt, -brit]
adjective
1.
Zoology. glabrous.
2.
Botany. becoming glabrous; somewhat glabrous.

Origin:
1855–60; < Latin glabrātus (past participle of glabrāre to make bare, deprive of hair), equivalent to glabr-, stem of glaber without hair, smooth + -ātus -ate1
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Glabrate is always a great word to know.
So is mammal. Does it mean:
warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, scaly legs and beak which bear young in shelled eggs
vertebrate with body hair that nourishes young with milk from mammary glands
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glabrous or glabrate (ˈɡleɪbrəs, ˈɡleɪbreɪt, -brɪt)
 
adj
biology without hair or a similar growth; smooth: a glabrous stem
 
[C17 glabrous, from Latin glaber]
 
glabrate or glabrate
 
adj
 
[C17 glabrous, from Latin glaber]
 
'glabrousness or glabrate
 
n

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glabrate gla·brate (glā'brāt', -brĭt)
adj.
Glabrous.

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