hirsute
hairy; shaggy.
Botany, Zoology. covered with long, rather stiff hairs.
of, relating to, or characteristic of hair.
Origin of hirsute
1Other words for hirsute
Other words from hirsute
- hir·sute·ness, noun
- sub·hir·sute, adjective
- sub·hir·sute·ness, noun
Words Nearby hirsute
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How to use hirsute in a sentence
The star is not entirely to blame for his hideous, hirsute transgression.
Leo, the Beard Has to Go: When a Man’s Facial Hair Reaches Crisis Point | Tim Teeman | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOkay, the historical “Santa” is quite different from the hirsute character on the Hallmark cards.
Arnone is 33, hirsute and handsome, his dark looks inherited from Sicilian ancestors.
A considerably less hirsute host faced down a firing squad, donned clown gear, and got berated by Don Draper himself.
Porter finds that loving a hirsute man is also about accepting the mixed messages his hairiness might imply.
There stood Alpheus Briggs, smearing his bearded lips with his hirsute paw—for once again he had been at the liquor below.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandA quarter of an hour later, Simon the hirsute, who had now turned sweet as honey, brought me my twelve florins.
The Iron Trevet or Jocelyn the Champion | Eugne SueWould you could have heard that vesper hymn stealing hirsute through the mellow evening-air!
The valve is strong and thick; and the epidermis, when preserved, is hirsute with spines.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinThe radii are wide, square on the summits, but not so conspicuously covered by hirsute epidermis as in that species.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles Darwin
British Dictionary definitions for hirsute
/ (ˈhɜːsjuːt) /
covered with hair
(of plants or their parts) covered with long but not stiff hairs
(of a person) having long, thick, or untrimmed hair
Origin of hirsute
1Derived forms of hirsute
- hirsuteness, noun
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