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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hairless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ his hairless chin
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hairless philosopher who lives in the wilderness, meditates and kills people.
▪ Can you think of a sympathetic animal with a hairless tail?
▪ His armpits were also nearly hairless, almost sweet with musk.
▪ Just like the familiar bedding forget-me-not, but perennial and with softer hairless leaves.
▪ No wonder the high-voiced boys with smooth, hairless cheeks hated her.
▪ Rex told them he wanted the boy to be between 6 and 9 and blond with a hairless body.
▪ Rodriguez thought they must all look like big, hairless teddy-bears romping over the dunes.
▪ The females build nests, give birth to their blind and hairless young after a gestation of thirty days.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hairless

Hairless \Hair"less\, a. Destitute of hair; bald.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hairless

1550s, from hair + -less. Related: Hairlessness.

Wiktionary
hairless

a. 1 destitute of hair. 2 bald.

WordNet
hairless

adj. having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail" [ant: hairy]

Wikipedia
Hairless

Hairless, also known as H, is a well-characterized Drosophila gene. Many mutations to hairless are embryonic lethal; however, there are several viable hairless mutants. Hairless is involved in the Notch signaling pathway in Drosophila, acting as a suppressor of Notch signaling.

Usage examples of "hairless".

Dyne, his scrawny arms strapped to a pair of Y-shaped branches, eyes girlishly aflutter, feigned to yield his hairless body into the ecstatic admixture of bliss and pain of which he fancied heaven was justly composed.

He lifted Alastor to his shoulder and the hairless cat curled itself around his neck and rested there.

As Timothy moved the craft in for a closer look, he saw the hairless Alastor balanced on his two back legs on the outcropping of stone, his front paws swatting at the bird.

She gave her full attention to the Araba handsome, dark-skinned man with a full mustache but a hairless chin, which he plucked meticulously every evening, to the wincing fascination of her men.

There were no wires overhead--no sound of life or movement except, here and there, there passed slowly to and fro human figures dressed in the same asbestos clothes as my acquaintance, with the same hairless faces, and the same look of infinite age upon them.

In the center of the barracks he found his key man, the obvious barracks bully, a monster of a man, naked, hairless, fondling two bawds and being fed whiskey by sycophants.

It was no secret, except to Birdie, that very few people enjoyed the company of the hairless canine.

Firm, yes, with only trifling bounce, but hardly the bubbies of a hairless child.

This Mica Indevar was a stoop-shouldered cessant whose round face and smooth, hairless head gave little hint of his age, though his husky voice led me to suspect he was pushing ninety years.

Ruby almost choked when the heavyset cook bent over, revealing numerous nicks on her hairless legs.

I faced the hairless, bright red chest of the male gelada baboon - powerful, savage bandit from the highland plains of Abyssinia.

The elder goatling grunted and twittered at Jah-lila, gesturing with hairless forelimbs as she spoke.

They look so strange, walking normally on two legs, hoofless, clawless, hairless.

When he reaches a centerfold of hairless hunks wearing G-strings and fishnet bikini briefs, he slaps the magazine shut.

Jonesy turns his attention to the figure in the bed, the gray thing with the byrus-speckled sheet pulled up to its chest, which is a plain gray expanse of poreless, hairless, nippleless flesh.