villous
English
adj
Definitions
- Hairy, covered with soft long hair.
- (biology) Covered with villi.
Etymology
Derived from Latin villus (hair, shaggy hair, tuft of hair, down, tuft, woolly hair).
Origin
Latin
villus
Gloss
hair, shaggy hair, tuft of hair, down, tuft, woolly hair
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
髪
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- extravillous English
- intervillous English
- intravillous English
- microvillous English
- perivillous English
- tubulovillous English
- villus English
- villus Latin
- villutus Latin
- velluto Italian
- villo Italian
- velu French
- villosité French
- vello Spanish, Castilian
- بَلاس Arabic
- veluotte Old French
- vilo Esperanto
- bellus Maltese
- villūtus LL