Botany and Entomology. Covered with short dense white or whitish hairs; canescent.

Botany and Zoology. Covered with long and stiffish hairs.

Containing or covered with hair, hairy; of or relating to hair.

Botany, Zoology, and (formerly) Anatomy. Bearing or having hair or a hair; covered with hair.

= 2.

Covered with hairs, esp. long, soft hairs. Cf. pubescent, adj. 2.

= piliferous, adj.

Of, relating to, or consisting of hair.

Zoology and Medicine. Of or relating to hair.

Botany. Esp. of a part of a lichen: resembling tow or wool (esp. as contrasted with gelatinous). Now rare.

Of the nature of hair; hairy.

= 1.