1. A covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
   "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"
    
2. Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
   "there is a hair in my soup";
   - pilus
    
3. A filamentous projection or process on an organism
   "The caterpillar was covered in tiny hairs"
    
4. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
   "The corn silk was covered in fine plant hair";
   - fuzz, tomentum
    
5. A very small distance or space
   "they escaped by a hair's breadth";
   - hair's breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker, hairbreadth
    
6. Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
   "The antique chair was reupholstered with traditional hair";
   - haircloth

Sounds like: gunnels, gunwahair, hare

Derived forms: hairs

Type of: appendage, body covering, cloth, enation, fabric, filament, filum, material, outgrowth, plant process, process, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, textile

Part of: integumentary system, mammal, mammalian

Encyclopedia: Hair, Thomas