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Hirsute definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HIRSU'TE, a. [L. hirsutus.]
1. Hairy; rough with hair; shaggy; set with bristles.
2. In botany, it is nearly synonymous with hispid, but it denotes having more hairs or bristles, and less stiff.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" [syn: hairy, haired, hirsute] [ant: hairless]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin hirsutus; akin to Latin horr?re to bristle — more at horror Date: 1621 1. hairy 1 2. covered with coarse stiff hairs <a hirsute leaf> • hirsuteness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 hairy, shaggy. 2 untrimmed. Derivatives: hirsuteness n. Etymology: L hirsutus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hirsute Hir*sute", a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus horrid. Cf. Horrid.] 1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy. 2. Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.] Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. --Life of A. Wood. 3. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. --Gray. 4. (Zo["o]l.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a man is hirsute, he is hairy. (FORMAL) ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Hairy, shaggy, bristled, bristly. 2. Coarse, rough, rude, uncouth, boorish, unmannerly, rustic, ill-bred, loutish.

Moby Thesaurus

barbellate, bristled, bristling, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hispid, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, unshorn, velvety, whiskered, woolly