MEANING
Covered with noticeable hair or coarse hairlike growth.
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- hirsute face
- hirsute stem
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A hirsute face appeared above the collar.
The plant’s hirsute stem caught the light.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more hirsute; superlative most hirsute where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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