hairing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hair

plural hairings

1. countableuncountableA distinctive pattern of hair growth.

   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.

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

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   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, Kenneth G. V. Smith, Teresa Clay, John Smart, Insects and other arthropods of medical importance, page 128

   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.

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