body hair

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body hair

  • /ˈbɒ.diˌhɛː(ɹ)/

noun body hairs

  1. countable, uncountable Hair of the body; in particular, androgenic hair, to the exclusion of facial hair and the hair atop one's head.
  2. countable, uncountable An individual strand of such hair. If I were the water of your bath/I would send part of me to gather/in the recess of your navel.../and there my temperature would rise to match yours/and I would move your body hairs like plants of the sea/in and out with the tide/created by your movement.

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noun androgenic hair

Españolvello androgénico, vello corporal
한국어체모 chemo
日本語体毛 taimō
中文體毛 /体毛 tǐmáo
Portuguêspelo, pelo androgênico, pelo corporal
Françaispoils du corps, poils androgéniques
DeutschKörperhaare, Körperbehaarung
Italianopelo
Ελληνικάτρίχες tríches
Românăpăr de pe corp
Русскийво́лосы на те́ле vólosy na téle

noun individual strand of body hair

Españolvello
Portuguêspelo
Русскийво́лос на те́ле vólos na téle, волосо́к на те́ле volosók na téle

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@misc{body_hair_2026,
  title = {body hair},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/body%20hair},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}