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Recent Examples of glabrous
Genetically identical neurons that form Meissner corpuscles for picking up vibrations in glabrous skin, for example, also form lanceolate endings for detecting hair movement in hairy skin.
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Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
The result was a cityscape of relentless sheen, façades as glabrous and ageless as a starlet’s brow.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
Well, not spotted per se, but definitely glabrous and glaucous.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Rather than bronzed and glabrous Malibu lifeguards, the striders here are Great Britain’s finest young (male) athletes readying themselves for the 1924 Olympics.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2022
In 100 clean-shaven men direct measurement of the area of glabrous skin on the forehead and calvaria was found to be proportional to that of the hairy skin on the lips, cheeks, chin and neck.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2014
Ariel Bleicher, Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
The result was a cityscape of relentless sheen, façades as glabrous and ageless as a starlet’s brow.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
Well, not spotted per se, but definitely glabrous and glaucous.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Rather than bronzed and glabrous Malibu lifeguards, the striders here are Great Britain’s finest young (male) athletes readying themselves for the 1924 Olympics.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2022
In 100 clean-shaven men direct measurement of the area of glabrous skin on the forehead and calvaria was found to be proportional to that of the hairy skin on the lips, cheeks, chin and neck.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glabrous
hairless
Adjective
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There was a valley of veins moving over his hands, blue rivers poking underneath his hairless arms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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Social media users on both Reddit and X have shared unsettling photos that show the rodents with raw, hairless growths spreading across their faces and bodies.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Glabrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glabrous. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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