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hair  audio  (hâr) KEY 

NOUN:
    1. Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.
    2. A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.
  2. A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant.
  3. Fabric made from the hair of certain animals: a coat of alpaca hair.
    1. A minute distance or narrow margin: won by a hair.
    2. A precise or exact degree: calibrated to a hair.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English her, from Old English hr


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