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pel·age

(pĕl′ĭj)

1. The coat of a mammal, consisting of hair, fur, or wool, as distinct from bare skin.

2. Something that resembles the coat of a mammal: "The hardwoods were a soft pale green in the dark pelage of the conifers" (Peter Matthiessen).

[French, from Old French, from peil, pel, hair, from Latin pilus.]

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pelage

(ˈpɛlɪdʒ)

(Textiles) the coat of a mammal, consisting of hair, wool, fur, etc

[C19: via French from Old French pel animal's coat, from Latin pilus hair]

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pel•age

(ˈpɛl ɪdʒ)

n.

the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.

[1820–30; < French, derivative of poil (Old French peil, pel; see poilu); see -age]

pe•la•gi•al (pəˈleɪ dʒi əl) adj.

pelage

- The fur, hair, wool, etc. of a mammal.

Pelage

term for the fur, hair, or wool of wild animals, collectively. 1828.

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pelage - growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal

coat

mammal, mammalian - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

fur - dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)

wool, fleece - outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"

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No abnormalities of pelages were noted among these species of mammals.

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