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Word: Pileous
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
mid 19th century; earliest use found in Robley Dunglison (1798–1869), physician and medical writer. From classical Latin pilus hair + -eous, after osseous, carneous, etc
Definition:
Of, relating to, or consisting of hair.
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