glabrous

adjective

Definition of glabrousnext
as in hairless

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Recent Examples of glabrous This is the glabrous skin, or the surfaces that contact objects and terrain. — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 In humans and other primates, Pacinian corpuscles lie deep in the underlayers of both glabrous and hairy skin and concentrate near joints. — 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glabrous
hairless
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  • Her boyfriend got a hairless cat, a guy pretending to be Wolverine, and a recipe for butter-chicken macaroni and cheese.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Every mammal has borders between haired and hairless skin, and those borders are drawn early, in the embryo, when skin cells decide whether to build a hair follicle.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of hairless

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