hair

Noun

• a filamentous projection or process on an organism

• cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

• any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
  • there is a hair in my soup
    

• filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
  • peach fuzz
    

• a very small distance or space
  • they escaped by a hair's-breadth
    
  • they lost the election by a whisker
    

• a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
  • he combed his hair
    
  • each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  haircloth , pilus , fuzz , tomentum , hair's-breadth , hairsbreadth , whisker