Hair

A very small distance or space

Examples

They escaped by a hair's-breadth

Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

Synonyms

Pilus

Has types

Ingrown hair

Examples

There is a hair in my soup

Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

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

A filamentous projection or process on an organism