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Answer for the clue "Devoid of down ", 8 letters:
glabrous

Word definitions for glabrous in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Latin glaber "hairless, smooth, bald" (see glad ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glabrous \Gla"brous\, a. [L. glaber; cf. Gr. ? hollow, smooth, ? to hollow.] Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having no hair or similar growth; smooth; "glabrous stems"; "glabrous leaves"; "a glabrous scalp"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. smooth, hairless; bald.

Usage examples of glabrous.

Though she wriggled suggestively, hand to her mouth, she had no points to her chest, and Furber decided she still had a glabrous cleft.

There was no furniture as such, only stands and cases and pedestals, likewise all of polished stone: jadeite, nephrite, agate, feldspar and onyx, glabrous gray chalcedony.

Butters, of a neighboring town, who was to make the prayer before the Exercises of the Exhibition, and two or three notabilities of Rockland, with geoponic eyes, and glabrous, bumpless foreheads.

There are two varieties in commerce, the Huanuco Coca, or Erythroxylon Coca, which comes from Bolivia and has leaves of a brownish-green colour, oval, entire and glabrous, with a rather bitter taste, and Peruvian Coca, the leaves of which are much smaller and a pale-green colour.