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Monday, July 17, 2006

Word of the day

The Word of the Day for July 16 is:

hirsute \HER-soot\ adjective
1 : hairy
2 : covered with coarse stiff hairs


Did you know?
"Hirsute" has nearly the same spelling and exactly the same meaning as its Latin parent, "hirsutus." The word isn't quite one of a kind, though; it has four close relatives: "hirsutism" and "hirsuties," synonymous nouns naming a medical condition involving excessive hair growth; "hirsutal," an adjective meaning "of or relating to hair"; and "hirsutulous," a mostly botanical term meaning "slightly hairy" (as in "hirsutulous stems"). The last three are not especially common, but are entered in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.

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