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hirsute
/hɚˈsut/
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What does hirsute mean?
adjective
- Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (rare) Someone or something that is hirsute.
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IPA pronunciation
/hɚˈsut/
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This is the evergreen so-called Azalea that is so commonly cultivated in greenhouses, with long hirsute leaves, and large showy flowers.
It was a strange hirsute head, and probably looked more strange and hirsute than it naturally was, owing to its having a hairy cap upon it.
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Only a thick hawk nose, an inscrutable pair of black eyes under phenomenally heavy eyebrows, and a short black pipe showed plainly from the hirsute tangle.
Which runs to “beautiful coloring,” sartorial, hirsute, facial?
A prolonged clitoris, prolapsed ovaries, grossness of figure, and hirsute appearance have been accountable for many supposed instances of hermaphrodites.