haired

Definition

Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.

Etymology

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

Example Sentences

• "It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards."
• "He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer."
• "Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail."