glabrous.

Free of hairs or hairlike projections, especially on a biological surface.

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Words that belong together

• glabrous skin
• a glabrous leaf
• a glabrous stem

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The lower leaves were glabrous while the upper growth carried fine hairs.

She felt the contrast between the glabrous pad and the fur above it.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually non-gradable for the absence of hairs; use smoother or less hairy for ordinary comparisons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.