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Answer for the clue "Quality of a yeti or a yak ", 9 letters:
hairiness

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Word definitions for hairiness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of having hair [ant: hairlessness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hairiness \Hair"i*ness\ (-[i^]*n[e^]s), n. The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. --Johnson. The quality of being hairy.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being hairy.

Usage examples of hairiness.

Knot was eight feet of hulking matted hairiness and Sab resembled a leather lion with wings.

And lo, Baba Mustapha worked diligently, and Shagpat was behind an exulting lather, even as one pelted with wheaten flour-balls or balls of powdery perfume, and his hairiness was as branches of the forest foliage bent under a sudden fall of overwhelming snow that filleth the pits and sharpeneth the wolves with hunger, and teacheth new cunning to the fox.

The great, good-tempered fellow, as uncouth in its hairiness as Nebuchadnezzar during his lamentable but salutary attack of boanthropy, is regarded with a good deal of suspicion, if not dread, though it pays for its lodging by reason of its large appetite, which latter statement seems self-contradictory.

He may have a congenital disorder that results in excessive hairiness.

We chanced to discover a drug that let us change physically, let us adapt by increased size, hairiness and other physiological changes to extreme cold and altitude, let us move up into the mountains, into country in which others cannot survive, except for the duration of brief climbing expeditions.

We chanced to discover a drug that let us change physically, let us adapt by increased size, hairiness and other physiological changes to extreme cold and altitude, let us move up into the mountains, into counĀ­.

This mint varies considerably in appearance in different plants, like all the other native species of mint, some being much larger than others, with a more developed foliage and a much greater hairiness of all the parts.

His chin sawed in and out like a slide trombone, and his skin bubbled and boiled in a wild variety of color, texture and hairiness.