hairing

hairing

1. present participle and gerund of hair

hairing (countable and uncountable, plural hairings)

1. A distinctive pattern of hair growth.
   • 1973, Kenneth G. V. Smith, Teresa Clay, John Smart, Insects and other arthropods of medical importance, page 128:

     Base of abdomen thickly covered with silvery-yellow to golden hairing and strikingly contrasting in colour with remainder of abdomen, which appears partly or entirely black with black hairing.

   • 1973, Roger Ward Crosskey, A revisionary classification of the Rutiliini, page 13:

     The presence or absence, or extent, of hairing on different parts of the body can provide valuable taxonomic characters at species-group, or genus-group levels.

   • 1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark:

     Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.

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